Events coordinator Daley Farr and bookstore manager Hans Weyandt of Milkweed Books celebrate Mai Der Vang's Afterland with Graywolf Press at the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul, Minn. The noncirculating library is home to the Twin Cities Hmong Archives and features collections of political, historical and literary books. Mai Der read from her Whitman Award-winning collection before engaging in an onstage q&a with fellow Hmong writer Mai Neng Moua, author of The Bride Price (MNHS). Photo: Marisa Atkinson, Graywolf Press
