{"id":49786,"date":"2018-09-27T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=49786"},"modified":"2024-07-09T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:16:02","slug":"augsburg-hosts-author-anne-panning-87-book-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2018\/09\/27\/augsburg-hosts-author-anne-panning-87-book-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Hosts Author Anne Panning &#8217;87 Book Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Panning &#8217;87 returned to campus Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the Gundale Chapel to do a book reading and signing of her new memoir, &#8220;Dragonfly Notes: On Distance and Loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Faculty, staff, students, family, and friends of Anne were present and were able to ask questions about her writing as well as get their new copies signed. Anne was an English major at Augsburg and is now an English professor at The College at Brockport, State University of New York.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Anne Panning '87 Book Reading and Signing \" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/augsburguniversityalumni\/albums\/72157700223897471\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1905\/44950461591_47f8b7ea0d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Anne Panning '87 Book Reading and Signing \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>About the Book<\/h2>\n<p>When a seemingly routine medical procedure results in her mother\u2019s premature death, Anne Panning is left reeling. In her first full-length memoir, the celebrated essayist \u00a0draws on decades of memory and experience as she pieces together the hard truths about her own past and her mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>We follow Panning\u2019s winding path from rural Minnesota to the riverbanks of Vietnam\u2019s Mekong Delta and all the way back again\u2014a stark, poignant tale of two women deeply connected, yet somehow forever apart. Dragonfly Notes is a testament to the prevailing nature of love, whether in the form of a rediscovered note, a sudden moment of unexpected recall, or sometimes, simply, the sight a dragonfly flitting past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Panning &#8217;87 returned to campus Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the Gundale Chapel to do a book reading and signing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51772,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49786\/revisions\/51772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}