Three renowned authors will discuss their recent books on power and politics in rural America. In Bone of the Bone, National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf. Sarah Vogel’s The Farmer’s Lawyer tells the unforgettable true story of a young lawyer’s impossible legal battle to stop the federal government from foreclosing on thousands of family farmers. Sonja Trom Eayrs is a farmer’s daughter, rural advocate, attorney and author of Dodge County, Incorporated.

Presented by Farm Aid, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the CFANS Office of Undergraduate Programs. Co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Departments of History, American Studies, and Anthropology.