One Book | One Minnesota Virtual Author Conversation
Wednesday, September 17 | 7:00 p.m.
With Sheila O'Connor
Free and open to the public | Register here
The author of the featured title, Evidence of V: a Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions, will join in a statewide virtual conversation about her book and her work. One Book | One Minnesota is a statewide book club that invites Minnesotans of all ages to read a common title and come together virtually to enjoy, reflect, and discuss.
During the reading period, August 4 through September 28, Minnesotans will be invited to read the featured book selection and will have access to author videos, reading guides, and virtual book club discussions. Readers can access the ebook for free on Ebooks Minnesota. Learn more at thefriends.org/onebook.
About the Book
A blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, Sheila O’Connor tells the riveting story of V, a talented fifteen-year-old singer in 1930s Minneapolis who aspires to be a star. Drawing on the little-known American practice of incarcerating adolescent girls for “immorality” in the first half of the twentieth century, O’Connor follows young V from her early work as a nightclub entertainer to her subsequent six-year state school sentence for an unplanned pregnancy. As V struggles to survive within a system only nominally committed to rescue and reform, she endures injustices that will change the course of her life and the lives of her descendants.
One Book | One Minnesota is presented by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, as the Minnesota Center for the Book, in partnership with State Library Services and sponsored by Blaze Credit Union. Program partners also include AmazeWorks, Council of Regional Public Library System Administrators; Lerner Publishing; Mackin VIA; Minitex; and the Minnesota Department of Education. This program is made possible in part through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature to The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library as the Minnesota Center for the Book.
More information at www.thefriends.org/onebook
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