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BROADWAY BOOKS
1714 NE Broadway
Portland, OR 97232
503-284-1726
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Barbara Surovell
Friday, February 26, 7 pm: Meg Mullins joins us tonight to read 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.
Tuesday, March 2, 7 pm: Journalist R. Gregory Nokes will be here to read from his recently published book, Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon (OSU Press). In 1887, more than thirty Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. This book is the first authoritative account of the unsolved crime. It unearths the evidence that points to an improbable gang of seven rustlers and schoolboys, one only fifteen, as the killers. This book traces the author’s long personal journey to expose details of the massacre and its aftermath, and to understand how one of the worst of the many crimes committed by whites against Chinese laborers in the American West was for so long lost to history.
Thursday, March 4, 7 pm:Jennie Shortridge and Erica Bauermeister will read from their new novels. Jennie’s novel is When She Flew (New American Library), the story of a girl and her father found living off the grid in Forest Park. Inspired by real events that many of us remember, this novel is a warm-hearted story that imagines what happens when an injured war veteran and his 12-year-old naturalist daughter are brought back to “civilized” life after being on their own. Erica’s novel is The School of Essential Ingredients (Berkley), a tale of a cooking teacher and her students that navigates readers through each character’s personal dramas, memories and musings as they handle, slice, chop, blend, smell and taste. It is a remarkable debut novel that creates a captivating culinary world where the pleasures of sophisticated food come to mean much more than simple epicurean indulgence.
Tuesday, March 9, 7 pm: Oregon Book Award finalist Donna Matrazzo will be here to present her memoir, Wild Things: Adventures of a Grassroots Environmentalist. This book is Donna’s personal story of twenty years spent on Sauvie Island, and how she has come to love, appreciate, and fight for this landscape. It’s a tale of the coming of age of a grassroots activist. “The planet needs more friends like Donna Matrazzo – and it needs more books like this one, which remind us that we’re all quite capable of making big and useful change.” – Bill McKibben
Tuesday, March 16, 7 pm: Veneta resident Elizabeth Eslami will be here to read from her new novel, Bone Worship (Pegasus Books). This is a rich and soul-searching novel about an Iranian-American girl whose enigmatic father has decided to arrange her marriage. Jasmine Fahroodhi’s story begins just as she is flunking out of college, getting over a failed romance, and moving back in with her parents – her prim American mother and her mysterious Iranian father. Confused and furious, yet intrigued by her father’s plan to marry her off within one year, Jasmine meets many suitors and learns much about familial and romantic love, and the truth about her evasive father.
Thursday, March 18, 7 pm: Historian William C. Stack will join us to present his new book, Historic Photos of Oregon (Turner Publishing). This book offers a collection of nearly 200 images that present a compelling look at the history of our intriguing and picturesque state. Photographers represented in the collection include Edward S. Curtis and Dorothea Lange. The author’s captions and commentary combine with the photos to make an entertaining visual record of life in the Beaver State.
We'll be adding information about all of our great events in April very soon but just wanted to give you a heads-up that Rebecca Skloot, author of the very very hot nonfiction book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, will be reading her on Tuesday, April 13, at 7 pm. We are thrilled that Rebecca will be introduced that evening by her dad, Floyd Skloot, who has read at Broadway Books many times. Please join us -- you might want to come a bit early!
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Tuesday, March 23, 7 pm: The work of Portland artist Shirley Gittelsohn is familiar to many. She is known for her large landscapes, many of which reveal the influence of her WPA-era mentors; for her impressionistic, brilliantly colorful floral paintings; and for her penetrating but sympathetically engaging portraits. Her works hang in numerous public spaces and private collections. Tonight she will be here to present her beautiful new book, Shirley Gittelsohn: Paintings and Reflections. This book reproduces dozens of Ms. Gittelsohn’s paintings in gorgeous full color. Each painting is accompanied by a short essay by the artist that places the work in the context of her life and work. So, it is in a very real sense a memoir of an artist’s life. What a treasure! Please join us!
