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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Maile Chapman (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): From celebrated short story writer Maile Chapman comes her debut novel, Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto. In remote Finland in the 1920s, the female patients of a convalescent hospital seek relief from ailments real and imagined. Head nurse Sunny Taylor, an American who has fled an ill-starred life, has a new patient — a faded, irascible former ballroom-dance instructor named Julia Dey. Sunny takes it upon herself to pierce the mystery of Julia’s reserve. Soon, Julia’s difficulty, her tightly coiled anger, places her at the center of the ward’s tangled emotional life. When an obstetrician arrives to test a new surgical stitch, the novel’s escalating menace builds to a terrifying conclusion.
Other Book Events Today:
Kathi Appelt (Barnes & Noble-Clackamas, @4:30pm): We are pleased to welcome children’s author Kathi Appelt to our store for a reading and signing of her new book, Keeper. Appelt is also the author of The Underneath, a National Book Award Finalist and a Newbery Honor book. Come and meet the author!
Peter Nelson (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In I Thought You Were Dead (Algonquin), Peter Nelson delivers a novel that is all at once heartwarming, heartbreaking, and heart-wrenchingly funny. Most of all, it’s a story that proves that when a good dog is by one’s side, life can be full of surprises.
PSU MFA Poetry Graduate Readings (Blackfish Gallery, @7:30pm): These readings celebrate PSU’s graduating creative writing students and present an opportunity to hear some of Portland’s most exciting emerging writers. Reading will be Michael Achterman, Wendy Bourgeois, Chris Cottrell, and Wendy Noonan. Professor Primus St. John will introduce the writers.
Norman Ollestad (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Crazy for the Storm (Ecco) is Norman Ollestad’s harrowing, unforgettable true story of survival when, in 1979, the family’s private plane crashed in the mountains, killing his father and putting Norman’s skills to the ultimate test.
Soul of a Citizen (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Paul Rogat Loeb’s Soul of a Citizen (Griffin) has become a classic handbook for budding social activists, veteran organizers, and anybody who wants to make a change. Revised and updated, this book shows how to get started.
PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series Features: Nils Norman (Portland State, Shattuck Hall Annex, @7:30pm): Nils Norman will lecture about his work! The public is invited (its free, tell your friends).
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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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