Description" The Lager Queen of Minnesota has] complex female characters, sudden tragedies, culinary descriptions that awaken all your senses." --Entertainment Weekly A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest Two sisters, one farm.
Born and raised.
His bestselling debut, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, also won the 2016 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for debut fiction.
Stradal has worked in television since 2000.
Ryan Stradal is a fiction editor for The Nervous Breakdown, and an editor-at-large at Unnamed Press.
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In this deeply affecting family saga, resolution can take generations, but when it finally comes, we\'re surprised, moved, and delighted.
She earns a shot at learning the IPA business from the ground up--will that change their fortunes forever, and perhaps reunite her splintered family?Here we meet a cast of lovable, funny, quintessentially American characters eager to make their mark in a world that\'s often stacked against them.
Meanwhile, Edith\'s granddaughter, Diana, grows up knowing that the real world requires a tougher constitution than her grandmother possesses. if it\'s not too late. . .
Yet one day, Helen will find she needs some help herself, and she could find a potential savior close to home.
It\'s Blotz." Where Edith has a heart as big as Minnesota, Helen\'s is as rigid as a steel keg.
With the proceeds from the farm, Helen builds one of the most successful light breweries in the country, and makes their company motto ubiquitous: "Drink lots.
So she can\'t help wondering what her life would have been like with even a portion of the farm money her sister kept for herself.
Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make what most people would call a living.
A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter.
Description" The Lager Queen of Minnesota has] complex female characters, sudden tragedies, culinary descriptions that awaken all your senses." --Entertainment Weekly A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest Two sisters, one farm
