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September 2021
Idra Novey: Those Who Knew
Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. Idra Novey will be in conversation with Joseph O. Legaspi Those Who Knew is a taut, timely novel about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down. A riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country. “Novey—a poet…
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Kelli Jo Ford: Crooked Hallelujah
Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine—a mixed-blood Cherokee woman—and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. Life in Texas isn’t easy, however, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River,…
Find out more »Toni Jensen: Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known that in this she is not alone. As…
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Elizabeth Miki Brina: Speak, Okinawa
Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman’s journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth’s mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed…
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