Join us to celebrate Dianna Hunter’s new novel Clouded Waters (Holy Cow! Press). The book launch will include a reading, discussion, and book signing, with music by Duluth singer and guitarist Terrol Cousineau, crushing-it stylist on the bluesy, soulful and sometimes Western sides of R&B.
Clouded Waters tells the story of water defenders and pro-mining forces clashing in the far north of Minnesota, where the publisher of a struggling newspaper unearths a corrupt conspiracy.
About the Book:
Near Iron, Minnesota, waters split along a three-way divide, carrying minerals and contaminants to Hudson Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. Susan B. Ellingson (“SB” to those who know her) runs a small paper with the help of her best friend and a part-time staff. When a mining company seeks a permit to dig for copper and nickel and store potentially harmful mining waste nearby, SB commits to covering the story.
It isn’t easy. She wrestles with financial stress and personal pain. Her dead wife lingers in spirit. Their children have grown and left home, and SB’s Labrador provides sweet but insufficient company.
Her mother-in-law leads a group of Ojibwe and Métis grandmothers fighting to protect the water, and after an intriguing new woman comes to town, SB isn’t sure how to feel or act. After a fiery environmentalist informs her that a local water scientist has gone missing, she follows a trail of evidence from a tiny, off-grid community into a global tangle of lies, corruption, whistleblowing, and danger.
About the Author:
Dianna Hunter is the author of two nonfiction books, Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life and Breaking Hard Ground: Stories of the Minnesota Farm Advocates. Both were finalists for the Minnesota Book Award. Her short fiction, journalism, essays, and book reviews have appeared in national and regional publications. A former farmer and retired teacher of writing and women’s studies, she currently writes, gardens, and forages in the rocky green spaces of Duluth, Minnesota, where she lives with her wife, Deb.
