Atlas Obscura Wild Life: Cara Giaimo with Julie Beeler & Cascades Raptor Center

Portland'5: Winningstad Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR

A nature book like no other—a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world’s most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It’s more than a field guide–it’s an adventure. Author Cara Giaimo is joined by Julie Beeler, Cascades Raptor Center, and moderator Elena Passarello.

On the Run: Gina María Balibrera & Chelsea Bieker

Portland'5: Winningstad Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR

Gina María Balibrera's The Volcano Daughters is a searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each […]

Inheritance: Rachel Khong & Tracy O’Neill

Portland'5: Winningstad Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR

Rachel Khong's new novel asks: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? Tracy O'Neill delivers a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the priceless power of self-knowledge. Moderated by Cecily Wong.

Desire & Obsession: R.O. Kwon & Kimberly King Parsons

Portland'5: Winningstad Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR

From R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her desires and her life. In the debut novel by Kimberly King Parsons, a young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desire, guilt, and grief in this darkly comic. Moderated by Genevieve Hudson.

Past & Present: Mosab Abu Toha & Erin Marie Lynch

Portland'5: Winningstad Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR

Two powerful collections of poetry that grapple with the present-day impact of histories of state-sanctioned violence and colonialism—and at the same time, celebrate the small and big joy found even […]