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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Writers Talking: Tom Spanbauer (Central Library, US Bank Room, @1:00pm): As a writer, Tom Spanbauer explores issues of race, sexual identity, and how we make a family for ourselves in order to surmount the limitations of the families into which we are born. As a teacher, his innovative approach combines close attention to language with a large-hearted openness to what he calls ‘the sore place’ — that place within each of us that is the source for stories that no one else can tell. His novels are are notable for their combination of a fresh and lyrical prose style with solid storytelling. They include “Faraway Places,” “The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon,” “In the City of Shy Hunters” and “Now Is the Hour.”
Other Book Events Today:
GOLDEN LEAF: Memoir of a Khmer Rouge Genocide Survivor (St. John’s Booksellers, @2:00pm): Join us to celebrate the release of this compelling, shocking, uplifting memoir by Kilong Ung. A survivor of Cambodia’s notorious “killing fields” era, Ung has persevered, established himself in a new country, and become a Royal Rosarian. Follow Ung’s journey from the cruelties of the Khmer Rouge purges to a life of opportunity and service with a family of his own.
LaVerne Gagehabib presents The Blacksmith and the Doctor (In Other Words Women’s Books & Resources, @4:00pm):Roshima is an African-American/Lakota Indian woman living on a lesbian land community in Oregon in 1982. She travels back in time to post Civil War Missouri, when women were making progressive moves toward their independence and when Native Americans and newly freed slaves were being sold, killed, or removed from their land to make room for the America we live in today. Against this backdrop, Roshima and her past life-self, a blacksmith, fall in love with a woman physician who turns out to be their soul-partner.
La Verne Gagehabib is African-American-Lakota Indian. She lives with Jan, her life partner of 27 years in a small rural Oregon town on seven acres, with their three dogs and two cats. She is originally from Berkely, CA where she grew up prior to joining the Women’s Army Corps after graduating from high school. She did two tours in Okinawa, Japan and left the military after eight years in the Medical Corps. LaVerne received her MS from the University of Oregon where she taught Sociology.
Ink-Filled Page Red Anthology Launch Party (The Writers’ Dojo, @6:00pm): Join many of our literary friends to party into the night. We’ll celebrate the launch of Ink-Filled Page’s new Red Anthology with readings, treats, wine, music. It’s also a post-Wordstock wrap-up and the one-year anniversary of this Web site.
Ink-Filled Page is a quarterly literary journal published by our friends at Indigo Editing. Hope to see you there.
Star Wars: Death Troopers (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Horror writer Joe Schreiber presents two new novels. No Doors, No Windows (Del Rey) asks a terrifying question: When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it? In Death Troopers (Lucas Books), the first-ever Star Wars horror novel, a deadly virus that turns its victims into the vicious undead spreads on an Imperial prison barge. This event features the Cloud City Garrison of the 501st Legion of Stormtroopers.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County. For other book events this week, please check the list.
