Prairie Lights Bookstore

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Katherine E. Standefer to celebrate the paperback release of her new book Lightning Flowers. She will be joined in conversation by Thomas Mira y Lopez.

Lightning Flowers was a Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick (and its Group Text Pick for November 2020), and shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. It was also named one of Oprah Magazine‘s Best Books of Fall 2020 and featured in People Magazine, on the goop podcast, and on NPR’s Fresh Air.