Literature

Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall

A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice

Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall

A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age

Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2021 Fall

A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means

The Silver Box An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2021 Fall

In the final Enchantment Lake mystery, Francie’s search for the truth about her mother—and herself—plunges her into danger during a North Woods winter

American Gospel A Novel Lin Enger 2021 Fall

Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision

Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall

The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child

Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong Linda LeGarde Grover 2021 Fall

Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior

Olav Audunssøn II II. Providence Sigrid Undset 2021 Fall

The second volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century

Reeling A Novel Sarah Stonich 2021 Fall

RayAnne’s next adventure takes our intrepid heroine, haunted by her beloved grandmother’s death, to New Zealand to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show

Grandmother’s Pigeon Louise Erdrich 2021 Fall

A grandmother’s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award–winning author—at last back in print

Days Like Smoke A Minnesota Boyhood Jon Hassler 2021 Fall

The memoir of a small-town childhood by one of Minnesota’s favorite writers, now published for the first time

Brave Enough Jessie Diggins 2021 Fall

Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter

The Streel A Deadwood Mystery Mary Logue 2021 Fall

From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century Deadwood

Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring

Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible

Skiing into the Bright Open My Solo Journey to the South Pole Liv Arnesen 2021 Spring

The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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