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MahtoREADi Community Author Event

November 17 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore

MahtoREADi will host a free community author event featuring award-winning Minnesota author Anika Fajardo at p.m. on November 17 at Mahtomedi High School’s Chautauqua Fine Arts Center. The evening will include a pre-event book signing, author discussion and audience question-and-answer session.

The event will spotlight Fajardo’s novel The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore, published by Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster in 2025. Praised by Booklist as “a powerful story about identity, ancestry, and the invisible threads that tie us together,” the novel has received a Gold Medal from the International Latino Book Award for Popular Fiction, was named a finalist for the 2026 Minnesota Book Award in Novel & Short Story and received the 2026 Literature Award from Friends of American Writers.

Event Schedule

  • 6:30–7 p.m. Book signing
  • 7–8 p.m. Author discussion
  • 8–8:30 p.m. Question-and-answer session

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Venue

  • Chautauqua Fine Arts Center
  • 8000 75th St. N.
    Stillwater, MN 55082     + Google Map
  • Phone 651.407.2000