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October 5, 2021
 Tuesday, October 12, 7-8:30 p.m.
Join the Mary Ann Key Book Club for an online event featuring Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author of our fall 2021 book club selection Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. The author will be joined in conversation by Star Tribune columnist and book club partner Myron Medcalf.
The talk will conclude with a live Q&A session with webinar participants.
Collaborator: Star Tribune
Sponsor: Friends of the Hennepin County Library
Registration required. Sign up today!
 Hear from Lindsay Peifer and Myron Medcalf in this new video (via YouTube, 08:44 duration).
Hong writes about shame as the flip side of innocence. “My shame is not cultural but political. It is being painfully aware of the power dynamic that pulls at the levers of social interactions and the cringing indignity of where I am in that order either as the afflicted – or as the afflicter.” What privileges do you bring into the different spaces you occupy? How do you surface, understand and counteract your own implicit biases?
In “The End of White Innocence,” Hong writes, “The lie that Asians have it good is so insidious that even now as I write, I’m shadowed by doubt that I didn’t have it bad compared to others. But racial trauma is not a competitive sport.” How has society pitted one community of color against another? What examples do Hong provide, and what are their long-term impacts?
Mary Ann Key Book Club Discussion
October 14, 19, 21, 23, 26 and 27
Join our discussion of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong. Each small group discussion will be led by one member of our panel. Please register for only one small group discussion program.
Collaborator: Star Tribune
Sponsor: Friends of the Hennepin County Library
Registration required. Sign up today!
A Community Discussion of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Tuesday, November 2, 7-8:30 p.m.
Join columnist Myron Medcalf and moderator Lindsay Peifer in a virtual conversation with Asian American community leaders David Mura, Terri Thao and Anthea Yur. Panelists will discuss Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong, the Asian American experience, and how individuals can dismantle racism and make real change for a better future.
Collaborator: Star Tribune
Sponsor: Friends of Hennepin County Library
Registration required. Sign up today!
Tell us your thoughts as you read Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Share your feedback and reflections. Responses may be shared with Myron Medcalf and library staff, and quotes may be shared with readers through our newsletter.
Sunday, October 10, 2-3:30 p.m.
More Than a Single Story - The Suitcases We Carry: An Afternoon With Haitian Women Writers
In this More Than a Single Story conversation, we will engage with Haitian authors Beaudelaine Pierre, Gabrielle Civil, Valerie Deus, Marie Cerat and Jaira Placide on the themes in Pierre’s new book “You May Have the Suitcase Now,” a collection of essays that explores home and exile, and all that we carry with us in our physical and psychological “suitcases.” Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Registration required.
Monday, October 11, 7-8 p.m.
Franklin Library’s Community Read: The Seed Keeper
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day by joining Franklin Library's Community Read! Read The Seed Keeper on your own, then join author Diane Wilson (Dakota) to discuss the book in a live, virtual event. Funded by Friends of the Hennepin County Library. Join meeting link available here: The Seed Keeper author talk.
Questions about the Mary Ann Key Book Club? Email MaryAnnKey@hclib.org.
The Star Tribune is a valued partner of the Mary Ann Key Book Club. Mr. Medcalf is leveraging his column to further engage our community on the truths of the past, our challenges in the present, and the possibilities of the future.
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