Milkweed Books
1011 S Washington Avenue
Suite 107
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
Join booksellers at Milkweed Books for our August iteration of Milkweed Book Club. We’ll be reading If You Cross the River by Geneviève Damas, translated by Jody Gladding.
Booksellers will lead an open discussion of the book with topics and questions and encourage anyone to attend. Pick up the book in-store or online at milkweed.org and use code BOOKCLUB to receive 20% off ahead of the club meeting.
Feel free to call the bookstore at (612) 215-2540 with any questions.
Geneviève Damas
Geneviève Damas is a Belgian actress, playwright, and novelist. After completing a law degree, she turned to theater. She has acted, directed, and written award-winning plays for both children and adults. If You Cross the River is her first novel and has received wide international acclaim, including recceiving the Prix Victor Rossel in Belgium and the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, awarded annually for fiction that enriches cultural diversity and the French language on the five continents. Damas lives in Brussels.
Jody Gladding
Jody Gladding is a poet and translator. She has published five full collections of poems: I entered without words, the spiders my arms, Translations from Bark Beetle, Rooms and Their Airs, and Stone Crop.
From celebrated Belgian author Geneviève Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of education.