YANGSZE CHOO: Author of historical fantasy including “The Ghost Bride,” made into a Netflix drama, discusses her latest novel about shapeshifters, “The Fox Wife.” In-person, presented by Club Book. Free.
7 p.m. Wednesday, Scott County Library, Savage.
Go to clubbook.org/portfolio-posts/yangsze-choo . RAMONA EMERSON: New Mexico-based author introduces “Exposure,” a follow-up to her bestselling debut “Shutter,” featuring a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force.
In the new thriller Rita grapples with a serial killer and the ghosts he leaves behind. Emerson is a Dine (Navajo) writer, filmmaker and photographer. She and her husband, producer Kelly Byars, have a production company, Reel Indian Pictures.
In conversation with Minnesota mystery writer Marcie Rendon, who calls Emerson’s book “Intense, gripping, moving and so gorgeously written ...
A stunner!” 6 p.m. Thursday, Once Upon a Crime, 604 W.
26th St., Mpls. PERCIVAL EVERETT: Pen Pals reading series presents Pulitzer Prize finalist for “Telephone” introducing his new novel “James,” a reimagined version of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the viewpoint of Jim, the boy’s enslaved friend.
In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg, it is a finalist for the National Book Award.. 7:30 p.
m. Monday, 11 a.m.
Tuesday; in-person tickets sold out. For virtual tickets go to supporthclib.org/percival-everett .
MOLLY BETH GRIFFIN: Minnesotan.
