BEMIDJI — Four Pines Bookstore will host a literary conversation with Two-Spirit author Carson Faust and Bemidji State Professor Veronica Veaux at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Four Pines, 102 Third St. NW.
Faust is an enrolled member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso tribe of South Carolina. His literary debut confronts the specter of colonization and the generational scars it leaves on Native American families, a release said.
Steeped in Indigenous folklore and drawing from the author’s own family history, "If the Dead Belong Here" examines what it means to be haunted, both by the supernatural and by terrors of our own making.
"When 6-year-old Laurel Taylor vanishes without a trace, her family is left shattered, struggling to navigate the darkness of grief and unanswered questions," the