In “The Enigma of Iris Murphy,” author Maureen Millea Smith, a Hennepin County librarian and creative writing teacher, delves into the life of Iris Murphy, an elderly public defender in Omaha County. By the second chapter, readers discover Iris’s discomfort with the prison system, despite her professional ties to it. Smith’s motivation for creating this character can be traced back to her cousin, a trial attorney. On the inside book jacket, she reveals, “I look at the world novelistically … it is the accretion of details that helps me to understand characters and to make them real …” This detail-driven…
Author: Rachel Engstrom
Smith Coffee & Cafe in Eden Prairie is independently owned and operated as a family business by the Schuster family. Smith Coffee & Cafe opened on May 1, 2018, and has been offering Eden Prairie a historic locale with modern tastes ever since. The historic Smith Douglas More House on Eden Prairie Road was previously a Dunn Bros. coffee shop between 2001 and 2004, but it has now become the local favorite it was meant to be. The Bacon Avocado Egg Sandwich. Originally built in 1877, the house served as a boarding house for passengers using the nearby Minneapolis-St. Louis…