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This Queer Book Saved My Life - 7 Minutes in Book Heaven with Dianna Hunter and Clouded Waters

7 Minutes in Book Heaven with Dianna Hunter and Clouded Waters

This Queer Book Saved My Life

10/10/23 • 13 min

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We meet Dianna Hunter and her new novel Clouded Waters which releases today: October 10!
What's it about? When a local water scientist goes missing, newspaper owner Susan B. Ellingson follows a trail of evidence from a tiny, off-grid community into a global tangle of lies, corruption, whistleblowing, and danger. All the while her mother-in-law leads a group of Ojibwe and Métis grandmothers fighting to protect the water, and when after an intriguing new woman comes to town, Susan isn't sure how to feel or act.
Dianna Hunter (she/her or they/them) is the author of 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. Dianna was a farmer and farm advocate before beginning a career in writing and college teaching. She earned an MA in English (Creative Writing) from Iowa State University,
Buy Clouded Waters
Visit our Bookshop at bookshop.org/shop/thisqueerbook or buy directly right now: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781737405160
Also, we talked about the poem "Election Season" by Julie Gard. It's in Julie's collection I Think I Know You. Buy it here: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781952593338
Connect with Dianna Hunter
Website: diannahunter.com
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10/10/23 • 13 min

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This Queer Book Saved My Life - 7 Minutes in Book Heaven with Dianna Hunter and Clouded Waters

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J.P. Der Boghossian
Hey everyone. My name is J.P. Der Boghossian. I’m an essayist, Lambda Literary Fellow, founder of the Queer Armenian Library, and I want to let you know that we are pressing the pause button on our Minutes in Book Heaven podcast. We’re devoting a lot of focus on our new format for This Queer Book Saved My Life and so for right now we’re pausing production of new episodes of Minutes in Book Heaven. We recorded this last episode of Minutes a few

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