An evening with Garrison Keillor

Common Good Books presents an evening with Garrison Keillor at the Virginia Street Swedenborgian Church for a reading from his holiday novel A Christmas Blizzard.

Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country-bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky-rise apartment overlooking Chicago. Even down with the stomach bug, Mrs. Sparrow yearns to see “The Nutcracker” while James yearns only to escape the faux cheer, the bitter cold, the whole Christmas season. An urgent phone call from his hometown of Looseleaf, North Dakota, sends James into the midst of his lunatic relatives and a historic blizzard. As he hunkers weather the storm, the electricity goes out and James is visited by a parade of figures who deliver him an epiphany worthy of the season, just in time to receive Mrs. Sparrow’s wonderful Christmas gift.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011
7:30pm
Swedenborgian Church
170 Virginia St.
St. Paul, MN 55102