Book Event: "Muus vs. Muus" with Kari Lie Dorer

About This Event

Join editor and translator Kari Lie Dorer at Next Chapter Booksellers for a presentation about her work on Muus vs. Muus: The Scandal that Shook Norwegian America, recently published by MNHS Press.

Originally published in Norway, this translation tells the gripping and consequential tale of Oline and Pastor Berndt Muus, and the scandal that rocked a late nineteenth-century Norwegian American community in Minnesota and beyond. When Oline sued her husband to recoup her inheritance, in the eyes of the Norwegian Synod she had erred by not bringing her complaint to the congregation first, and by refusing to defer completely to her husband. Yet, in her new home of America, the law regarding inheritance was on her side. 

Dorer will give a presentation, engage in questions and answers, and sign books, which will be available for purchase.