Please join us for our November author reading with Jeremy Norton & Ashley Shelby!

Jeremy Norton will read from his book “Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response” which was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in Memoir & Creative Nonfiction.

In this remarkable memoir, Jeremy Norton marshals twenty-two years of professional experience to offer, with compassion and critique, an extraordinary portrayal of emergency responders. Trauma Sponges captures in arresting detail the personal and social toll the job exacts, as well as the unique perspective afforded by sustained direct encounters with the sick, the dying, and the dead.

Ashley Shelby is an author, a former environmental journalist, and a Twin Cities resident. Her books include South Pole Station, Red River Rising, and, most recently, Honeymoons in Temporary Locations. More information can be found at http://www.ashleyshelby.com.