The Lager Queen Of Minnesota: A Novel

"Author J. Ryan Stradal, who is from Minnesota, was tired of the oversimplified caricatures he often saw of Midwestern women in literature. So he wrote this story of a hardworking, pie-baking, Minnesotan grandma who is estranged from her go-getter, beer-brewing younger sister. The book follows different generations of the same family, as the women each take on the world in their own way. The characters are rich and the sense of place is wonderfully real (this Midwestern reader felt like she was home again from the very first page). You’ll fall in love with these characters – and fight the urge to crack a beer every time you crack open the book."