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SUMMARY:Elin Anna Labba Book Talk: The Home of the Drowned
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk featuring Sámi author and journalist Elin Anna Labba in conversation with Minnesota based North Sámi language educator\, Dr. Áila O’Loughlin. Drawing on her own family’s history of forced relocation and violent colonial dispossession\, Anna Labba’s debut novel\, The Home of the Drowned\, brings Sámi history to the fore through this intimate story. \n\nMake it a night out—the Turnblad Mansion with Eyes as Big as Plates on view\, FIKA Café\, and the ASI Museum Store will be open until 8 pm on 9/17! Books will be available for purchase at the event in collaboration with event partner\, University of Minnesota Press. \n\nAbout the Book:\n\nThe haunting\, multigenerational saga of a family of Sámi women fighting the devastation of their way of life. Nothing is true\, and everything is true; poetry will never hurt more than what has happened. Every summer\, Iŋgá\, her mother Rávdná\, and her Aunt Ánne travel west to their village on the lake. But the summer Iŋgá is thirteen\, they arrive to find their home and possessions have disappeared under water\, the land flooded by a dam built to supply hydropower to a society that has continually stolen from them. \n\n\nThe Home of the Drowned follows these women’s fortunes over forty years— from 1942 to 1982—as the water their people have lived near for centuries is transformed into a menacing force that threatens all they hold dear. Defying the authorities\, Rávdná decides to build a proper house on the lake to replace what was lost\, becoming an unlikely activist even as her actions isolate her family from the rest of the community. Meanwhile\, Ánne’s health is in decline\, and a concerned Iŋgá merely longs to live like everyone else—an impossible wish when the Swedish state is relentlessly drowning her world. \n\n\nDrawing on her own family’s history of forced relocation and violent colonial dispossession\, Elin Anna Labba’s debut novel brings Sámi history to the fore through this intimate story. In poetic prose deftly translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel\, she reveals connections between land\, water\, and people that hauntingly reverberate with the question: what is it that makes a home? \n\nAbout the presenters:\n\nElin Anna Labba is a Sámi journalist and author from the arctic region of Sweden. Her first book\, The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi\, also published in translation by the University of Minnesota Press\, won the 2020 August Prize for Best Nonfiction in Sweden. The Swedish publication of The Home of the Drowned was awarded the Norrland Literature Prize in 2025. \n\n\nDr. Áila O’Loughlin is a Sámi-American philosophy professor at North Hennepin Community College and a former high school English teacher of ten years. As a heritage learner of North Sámi\, Áila is passionate about cultivating Sámi language and culture groups in Minnesota–home to the largest population of Sámi diaspora in the United States. \n\n\nAdvanced registration required
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/elin-anna-labba-book-talk-the-home-of-the-drowned/
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