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SUMMARY:Survival: Emiko Jean & T Kira Māhealani Madden
DESCRIPTION:Novelists Emiko Jean (Before You Were Anne) and T Kira Māhealani Madden (Whidbey) join moderator and author Marisa Siegel for a conversation on their most recent novels and the secrets and lies that chase their protagonists. Told through multiple perspectives\, both authors create page-turning stories about webs of violence\, and the fragile lies that threaten survival.  \nAbout Before You Were Anne:\nAfter a woman is killed and her daughter vanishes\, detective Chelsey Calhoun uncovers a legacy of violence and survival that spans from Japan to Seattle in the new novel by the author of The Return of Ellie Black. \nA murdered woman. A missing daughter. A truth buried across two continents. \nMarried\, pregnant\, and thriving in her career\, Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life finally feels whole\, until an explosive new case shatters everything. A mother is dead. Her sixteen-year-old daughter\, Naomi\, has disappeared. And the search will awaken questions about Chelsey’s own origins—questions she’s spent a lifetime afraid to ask. \nThe victim called herself Anne Walker. But she was born Rika Takahashi\, and her journey from a remote Japanese farm to suburban Seattle conceals decades of deception. Across Tokyo’s shadowed underworld\, an isolated Idaho town\, and years of carefully constructed lies\, Rika reinvented herself at every turn. But she was always running—from someone\, or something. \nNow\, Chelsey must find Naomi before she becomes the next victim. But the deeper she delves into Rika’s hidden life\, the more she discovers: some secrets are worth killing for. And the most dangerous truths may be the ones closest to home. \nTold in three interwoven voices\, Before You Were Anne is a gripping suspense novel about the lies that bind families and the sins that echo across generations. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Whidbey:\nA stunning literary achievement and portrait of three women connected through one man in the aftermath of his murder—the explosive and highly anticipated debut novel from beloved and award-winning memoirist\, T Kira Madden. \nBirdie Chang didn’t know anything about Whidbey Island when she chose it\, only that it was about as far away as she could get from her own life. She’s a woman on the run\, desperate for an escape from the headlines back home and the look of concern in her girlfriend’s eyes—and from Calvin Boyer\, the man who abused her as a child and who’s now resurfaced. On her way\, she has an unnerving encounter with a stranger on the ferry who offers her a proposition\, a sinister solution\, a plan for revenge. \nBut Birdie isn’t the only girl Calvin harmed back then. There’s also Linzie King\, a former reality TV star who recently wrote all about it in her bestselling memoir. Though the two women have never met\, their stories intertwine. Once Birdie arrives on Whidbey\, she finally cracks the book’s spine\, only to find too much she recognizes in its pages. Soon after\, on the other side of the country\, Calvin’s loving mother\, Mary-Beth\, receives a shocking phone call from the police: her only son has been murdered. \nCalvin’s death sets into motion a series of events that sends each woman on a desperate search for answers. A complex whodunnit told from alternating points of view\, Whidbey is searingly perceptive and astonishingly original. Exploring the long reach of violence and our flawed systems of incarceration and rehabilitation\, this is a tense and provocative debut that’s sure to incite crucial questions about the pursuit of justice and who has real power over a story: the one who lives it\, or the one who tells it?
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/survival/
LOCATION:Portland’5: Winningstad Theatre\, 1111 SW Broadway Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
CATEGORIES:Fiction Events
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