One of the best new book releases of this week is:
The Lager Queen of Minnesota:
A Novel
J. Ryan Stradal
Hardback: Pamela Dorman Books, 2019.
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Edith Magnusson, the hard-working heroine in The Lager Queen of Minnesota is actually a composite of some of the women closest to author J. Ryan Stradal — his own mother and grandmothers. Stradal wasn’t seeing the strong, Midwestern women who raised him reflected well in contemporary fiction. So he decided to write those characters himself.
Listen to an NPR interview with the author
from All Things Considered:
C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com