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(Note: Carver County Library branch managers are providing updates on exciting programs, new services, and book reviews for Carver County Local News. Chanhassen and Victoria location manager Patrick Jones shares information about an upcoming author visit.)

Award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang will appear at Chanhassen Library on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 11 a.m. Yang, the first author to win Minnesota Book Awards in three categories in the same year, will talk about her latest book Where Rivers Part.

Where her previous award-winning works The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet also explore and honor her Hmong family’s heritage, the author opens up her mother’s journey with a first-person voice that echoes for generations. Her presentation includes the award-winning children’s book The Rock in My Throat, a personal reflection of the author’s selective mutism which further expands our opportunity to empathize with the refugee experience from the point of view of her own childhood.

Yang is the Star Tribune’s 2024 Artist of the Year and holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Carleton College. Her work has been widely honored, and the writer, teacher and speaker is a McKnight, Soros and Guggenheim fellow.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

This program will be streamed simultaneously on the library’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CarverCountyLibrary/live and available on its social media channels after the program. It is sponsored by the Library Foundation of Carver County.

(Special note: Because there will be an event at the new Chanhassen City Hall the same morning, arriving early is recommended.)