BRAINERD — The Pals of the Brainerd Public Library introduced the Summer season 2025 Brown Bag Lunch Creator Sequence, with eight Minnesota authors discussing their works within the Massive Assembly Room of the Brainerd Public Library on Mondays in June and July.
From noon-1 p.m. June 2 Minnesota creator Marcie Rendon will focus on her newest novel in her Money Blackbear thriller sequence, “Damaged Fields,” on the Brainerd Public Library.
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The story takes place in Minnesota within the Seventies: It’s spring within the Pink River Valley and Money Blackbear is doing fieldwork for an area farmer — till she finds him lifeless on the kitchen ground of the property’s rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native subject laborer, and his spouse are nowhere to be discovered, however Money discovers their younger daughter, Shawnee, cowering beneath a mattress. The lady, a attainable witness to the killing, is simply too terrified to talk. Within the wake of the homicide, Money can’t deny her intuitive talents: she is suspicious of the farmer’s grieving widow, who affords to absorb Shawnee quickly. Whereas Money is scouring White Earth Reservation for Shawnee’s lacking mom—whom Money needs to seek out earlier than the lady is put within the foster system—one other physique turns up. Involved by the escalating risk, Money races towards the clock to determine the reality of what occurred within the farmhouse.
Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, a Pinckley Prize-winning creator, playwright, poet, freelance author and group arts activist. Rendon was awarded the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award for 2020. She is a speaker on Native points, management and writing. Her second novel in her Money Blackbear thriller sequence, “Woman Gone Lacking,” was nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award. Rendon was acknowledged as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by Minneapolis AARP and Pollen in 2018. She lives in Minneapolis.
This presentation is sponsored by the Pals of the Brainerd Public Library via its volunteer and fundraising efforts. No registration is required, and all are welcome.
2025 Summer season Creator Sequence schedule:
June 2: Marcie Rendon, “Damaged Fields: A Money Blackbear Thriller”
June 9: Amy and Dave Freeman, “North American Odyssey: 12,000 Miles Throughout the Continent by Kayak, Canoe, and Dogsled”
June 16: Anna Farro Henderson, “Core Samples: A Local weather Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood”
June 23: Peter Geye, “A Lesser Gentle: A Novel”
June 30: Sally Franson, “Large in Sweden: A Novel”
July 14: Andrea Gilats, “Radical Endurance: Rising Previous in an Age of Longevity”
July 21: Josh Moehling, “A Lengthy Time Gone: A Novel”
July 28: Matt Goldman, “The Homicide Present: A Novel”
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