The Martian

Loved the movie. The part in the beginning where he preforms surgery on himself I closed my eyes.

NPR Books about the Twin Cities

Fiction

Believers: A Novella and Stories by Charles Baxter
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Blues Visions: African American Writing from Minnesota edited by Alexs Pate
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Poetry
[insert] Boy by Danez Smith
Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen
Whorled by Ed-Bok Lee

Nonfiction
The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away by Abdi Roble and Doug Rutledge
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl
Chronicles by Bob Dylan

Additional Reading
The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Vestments by John Reimringer