Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Doug Fine Reading (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Farewell, My Subaru (Villard), NPR’s Rural Guy, Doug Fine, vows to give up modern conveniences to move to a ranch in New Mexico where he’ll grow all his own food — never mind that he has no practical experience or mechanical skills. This is both a hilarious account and an inspiring call to action for anyone who wants to live greener.
Other Book Event’s Today:
Shilpa Agarwal Book Signing (Annie Blooms Books, @7:00pm): Shilpa Agarwal will be signing copies of her debut novel, Haunting Bombay.
After her mother’s death crossing the border from Pakistan to India during Partition, baby Pinky was taken in by her grandmother, Maji, the matriarch of the powerful Mittal family. Now thirteen years old, Pinky lives with her grandmother and her uncle’s family in a bungalow on the Malabar Heights in Bombay. While she has never really been accepted by her uncle’s family, she has always had Maji’s love.
One day, as monsoons engulf the city, Pinky opens a mysteriously bolted door, unleashing the ghosts of an infant who drowned shortly before Pinky’s arrival and of the nursemaid who cared for the child. Three generations of the Mittal family must struggle to come to terms with their secrets amidst hidden shame, forbidden love, and a call for absolute sacrifice.
Nic Sheff Reading (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic Sheff spares no detail in Tweak (Atheneum), the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his drug addiction, relapse, and recovery. “Difficult to read and impossible to put down” (Chicago Tribune), Tweak paints a picture of a person at odds with his past, his family, his substances, and himself.
Hester Rumberg Reading (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course and changed everything. Hester Rumberg’s Ten Degrees of Reckoning (Amy Einhorn Books) is an account of the unbelievable yet true story of one family’s love and loss, and a remarkable woman who decided to live against all odds.
Please check your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County. For other book events this week, please check the list.
