The man who co-wrote the screenplay of "House of Sand and Fog" has written a novel set in northern Minnesota.
It's a story of mistakes: those you can recover from and those you can't, of race relations and of finding - or returning - to your real self.
Shawn Lawrence Otto was the winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (NEMBA) for Fiction, and all this summer, we'll be bringing you books about the Northland, from the Northland by NEMBA award-winners and nominees.