Melissa Fay Greene

Melissa Fay Greene made her big splash with National Book Award finalist (and perennial book club favorite) Praying for Sheetrock, a social history of a tiny Georgia county struggling to come to grips with the challenges and ramifications of the Civil Rights movement.In all of her work, Greene combines meticulous historical research withthe dogged chops of a first-rate journalist and the narrative skills ofa novelist. Her most recent book, There Is No Me Without You,is the tale of Haregewoin Teferra, a foster mother in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia, and the AIDS orphans she has raised. At the Weisman, she willbe joined in conversation with Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of PublicAffairs professor Larry Jacobs.

7:30 p.m., Weisman Art Museum, 333 East River Rd., Minneapolis; 612-625-3363.