December arrives like a season that knows it’s putting on a show. The city fills with borrowed memories, holiday oddities, local stories and a little frost for dramatic effect. This week’s picks slip right into that cast, where familiar traditions get re-staged and the past refuses to stay backstage.

Author Talk: ‘The House on Rondo’ at Sumner Library in Minneapolis — Dec. 7

A story about erasure lands in a place built for keeping stories alive, which feels exactly right for this conversation between author Debra Stone and Arleta Little. At Sumner Library they’ll dig into “The House on Rondo” and its vision of joy and community outlasting the systems that failed them. A Q&A follows with free books while they last. • ListenNew novel shows destruction of Rondo neighborhood through the ey

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