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Tuesday 25 January 2022

This Minnesotan wrote a novel in Japanese

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Meet the Minnesotan who wrote a novel in Japanese — and then got it published

If you listen to public radio much at all, you know author interviews almost always involve a reading.

Including from Marnie Jorenby, but as she reads aloud from her novel, "Bye-bye Bag Lady," distinctly Japanese combinations of consonants and vowels compete with the quacking ducks on the pond and rumbling Harleys passing on the nearby street.

The setting is Loring Park in Minneapolis, chosen as an outdoor COVID-safe space to talk, which only added to the wonder of a story by an author who grew up on a farm near Cannon Falls, Minn., but whose fiction is being read on the other side of the Pacific.

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