Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Meg Mullins (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Meg Mullins reads from her second novel, Dear Strangers (Viking). This book is the story of siblings Oliver and Mary, whose world is forever changed by a series of childhood tragedies: the deaths of a neighbor and their father, and the resulting abandonment by their mother of a child who was to have been adopted into the family. As adults, Oliver searches for his almost-brother and Mary copes with loss through denial. This is a luminous, moving portrait of grief, atonement, romance, and longing. It unearths the possibilities of hope and renewal in the unexpected bonds forged with family and strangers alike.
Other Book Events Today:
Owl Book Group (Cedar Mill Community Library, @1:00pm): You are invited to join the Owl Book Group! Newcomers always welcome. Please join us for a great book discussion in the Lewis Community Room upstairs at the Cedar Mill Community Library. February’s selection is Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher.
Lecture & Book Signing: Tom Hayden (Reed College, Vollum Lecture Hall, @6:00pm): Tom Hayden gained national awareness as an activist during the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. To this day, he remains a leading voice for ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, eradicating sweatshops, and saving the environment. Hayden will talk about his most recent book, The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama.
The Bread of Angels (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): The Bread of Angels (Doubleday) is a gorgeous, romantic memoir of Stephanie Saldana’s year in Damascus, where she studied the Muslim Jesus, fled to an ancient desert monastery to heal her past, and unexpectedly found herself in love with a French novice monk. “A beautifully woven exploration of language and spirituality,” hails Kirkus Reviews.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.
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