# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Lesering Book Club - Punished by Ann-Helen Laestadius
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us in the Viking Room Wednesday, May 13th at Noon (Come at 11:30 for lunch in the Kringen Kafe!) as we discuss our next book, Punished by Ann-Helen Laestadius. 

In the 1950s near the Arctic Circle, seven-year-olds Jon-Ante, Else-Maj, Nilsa, Marge, and Anne-Risten are taken from their families. As children of Sámi reindeer herders, the Swedish state has mandated they attend a “nomad school” where they are forbidden to speak their native language. As the children visit home only sporadically, their parents know little about the abuse they face, much of it at the hands of the housemother, Rita. Those who dare to speak up are silenced. 

Thirty years later, the five children have chosen different paths to cope with the past. Else-Maj holds strong in her Sámi identity but has turned to religion for comfort, while Anne-Risten now goes by Anne to hide her heritage from friends. Nilsa herds reindeer like his father but harbors a lot of anger, and Jon-Ante struggles with traumatic memories from school. Then there’s Marge, who is about to adopt a daughter from Colombia, but can’t help questioning if it’s right to take a child from her homeland. 

Then suddenly, housemother Rita reappears. Now an old, frail woman claiming to have God on her side, she acts like nothing ever happened. But the five former students have neither forgotten nor forgiven her. As the narrative shifts between each of their perspectives, the novel questions: If you had the chance to punish the person who hurt you as a child, would you?
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/fargo/lesering-book-club-punished-by-ann-helen-laestadius/200029981571105
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 8

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Fargo
- **state**: ND
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 722 2nd Ave N, Fargo, ND, United States, North Dakota 58102
- **lat**: 46.87808
- **long**: -96.79217
- **full address**: 722 2nd Ave N, Fargo, ND, United States, North Dakota 58102

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Lesering Book Club - Punished by Ann-Helen Laestadius being held?
  - **A:** Lesering Book Club - Punished by Ann-Helen Laestadius takes place on Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 12:00 pm at 722 2nd Ave N, Fargo, ND, United States, North Dakota 58102.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Lesering Book Club - Punished by Ann-Helen Laestadius?
  - **A:** Lesering Book Club - Punished by Ann-Helen Laestadius is organized by Sons of Norway Kringen Lodge 4-025.

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