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03.20: Sarah Manguso
2015-02-14 01:01:37| Powells Books Events Calendar
In her dazzling new book, Ongoingness (Graywolf), Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for 25 years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened," she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something important. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work and haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.
03.20: Alice LaPlante
2014-02-19 01:35:16| Powells Books Events Calendar
With a rare combination of gripping storytelling, vivid prose, and remarkable insight into character, Alice LaPlante, author of the acclaimed Turn of Mind, brings to life a story of passion and obsession that will haunt readers long after they turn the final page. A charged and provocative psychological thriller, A Circle of Wives (Atlantic Monthly Press) dissects the dynamics of love and marriage, trust and jealousy, posing the terrifying question: How well do you really know your spouse?
03.20: Alison McQueen
2014-02-19 01:35:15| Powells Books Events Calendar
Sophie never meant to come back to India, yet when she steps once again onto the country's burning soil, she realizes her return was inevitable. As her ill-fated marriage begins to unravel, it sets in motion a devastating chain of events that will bring her face to face with a past she's tried so desperately to forget. Alison McQueen's Under the Jeweled Sky (Sourcebooks Landmark) is a tender story of love, loss of innocence, and the aftermath of a terrible decision no one knew how to avoid.
03.20: Susanne Antonetta
2014-02-19 01:35:15| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Make Me a Mother (W. W. Norton), acclaimed memoirist Susanne Antonetta adopts an infant from Seoul, South Korea. After meeting their six-month-old son, Jin, at the airport, Antonetta and her husband learn lessons common to all parents: the lack of sleep and the worry and joy of loving a child. They also learn lessons particular to their own family: not just how another being can take over your life but how to let an entire culture in and the tricky steps required to navigate race in America.
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03.20: Greg Bear CANCELLED
2013-03-06 09:34:50| Powells Books Events Calendar
In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood — a horrifying shape-changing parasite — has arrived in force. Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood. Greg Bear's Halo: Silentium (Tor) is the third book in his Forerunner trilogy. We're sorry to report that this event has been cancelled.
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