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MN Reads: "Magical Realism for Non-Believers" by Anika Fajardo

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published May 9, 2019 at 1:38 PM CDT

It couldn't have been more of a jolt.

Lifelong Minnesotan Anika Fajardo left Madison, WI in January to spend her break with the father she'd never met.  The last thing the college student, bundled for -30, expected when she stepped off the plane in tropical Colombia, was how it felt to be surrounded with people who looked like her.

Home, not-home, family, not-family, familiar, unfamiliar; Fajardo takes us on her journey as daughter, wife, mother, looking for the place she belongs.

Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family by Anika Fajardo is published by the University of Minnesota Press.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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