The Friends’ Summer Book Talk Series continues July 5 when Anna Rose Johnson gives a live virtual presentation about her novel The Star that Always Stays, also a 2023 winner of the Library of Michigan Notable Book Award.

Johnson sets her story in Northern Michigan in 1914. It centers on the life of a 14-years-old Native American girl who loves her grandfather’s stories about her Ojibwe ancestors and struggles against her mother who forces her to pretend that is not her identity.