Summary: Author George Rabasa, soprano Jennifer Baldwin Peden, and pianist Barbara Brooks present The Wonder Singer through a program of storytelling and song. Rabasa's critically acclaimed 2008 novel, The Wonder Singer, tells the story of Mark Lockwood, who is hired to ghost-write the autobiography of an aging operatic diva. When she dies suddenly, leaving him with hours of interview tapes, he realizes he has the greatest story of his life, but he faces the greatest struggle of his life in telling it. The Wonder Singer, takes shape as a book-within-a-book and sweeps Lockwood along the dizzying chronology of the diva's life. Recorded live on December 5, 2008 from the Minneapolis Central Library's Pohlad Hall. The Holiday Toast is presented by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County.
