The South Pasadena Public Library is hosting “Author Talk,” an opportunity for participants to virtually read and talk with authors and their books.
This Monday, November 30, join the library for an evening with David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of “Winter Counts,” a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Publishers Weekly, one of the 100 Best Books of 2020 by Amazon. It is also one of the 20 recommended books of the year by the Los Angeles Times.
“Winter Counts” is the story of a local Native American enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation who becomes obsessed with finding and stopping the dealer who is bringing increasingly dangerous drugs into his community. It’s a Native thriller, an examination of the broken criminal justice system on reservations, and a meditation on Native identity.
“Winter Counts” was also selected as an Amazon Best Mystery and Thriller of the year, Best of the Month by Apple Books, an Indie Next pick, and was a main selection of the Book of the Month Club. The novel was the November choice of the BuzzFeed Book Club and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Book Club. It was nominated for Best Debut Novel and Best Mystery and Thriller in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards, and also nominated for Book of the Year by the Book of the Month Club.
In Author Talk, Weiden, an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota nation and winner of the 2020 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, will discuss his new mystery novel in conversation with author Marcie R. Rendon, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The event is part of the Glendale Library, Arts and Culture and the Southern California Library Cooperative’s free Be The Change Series.
To register for the online event, visit www.southpasadenaca.gov/Home/
