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| The Thread's Must Read |
"Sheets" by Brenna Thummler
Did you ever rock the world's laziest Halloween costume: the sheet? Cut out two eyeholes and voila, you're a ghost?
"Sheets" takes place in a world where there is a real ghost under that floating bedspread. This charming coming-of-age graphic novel follows 13-year-old Marjorie, who is single-handedly keeping her family's struggling laundromat alive. Her mother has died, and her father is stumbling through life in a grief-stricken daze, while a conniving businessman has his sights set on the land beneath the family business.
A train ride away from all that is the great beyond — where ghosts meet regularly in a support group to discuss their own deaths. There, Wendell isn't ready to admit what's happened to him.
When Wendell makes a break back for the world of the living, he stumbles right into the laundromat and sets off a chaotic string of events that could upend everything Marjorie's trying to hold together.
This story won't take more than an afternoon to devour, and it's a favorite of Lemony Snicket, Brian Selznick and more.
-Tracy Mumford |
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| | Talking Volumes 2019 season guide |
MPR and the Star Tribune are proud to announce the 20th season of Talking Volumes. This season will feature interviews with Alice Hoffman, Saeed Jones, Tim O’Brien, Karen Armstrong, Lindy West and Tracy K. Smith.
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