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From South Korea to the American South, two multi-generational novels explore inheritance, grief, and family. Extraordinarily beautiful and deeply moving, E. J. Koh<\/a>‘s The Liberators<\/em> is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma, and empathy, and a stunning testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance. From the best-selling author Ayana Mathis<\/a>, The Unsettled<\/em> is a searing multi-generational novel\u2014set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama\u2014about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival. Moderated by Chelsea Bieker<\/a> (Heartbroke<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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\"bookIn E. J. Koh’s The Liberators<\/em>: At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho\u2019s overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come.<\/p>\n

From the Gwangju Massacre to the 1988 Olympics, flashbacks to Korean repatriation after Japanese surrender, and the Sewol ferry accident, E. J. Koh\u2019s exquisitely drawn portraits and symphonic testimony from guards, prisoners, perpetrators, and liberators spans continents and four generations of two Korean families forever changed by fateful past decisions made in love and war. Extraordinarily beautiful and deeply moving,\u00a0The Liberators<\/em>\u00a0is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma, and empathy, and a stunning testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance.<\/p>\n

\u201cA piercing, patient debut by one of our finest chroniclers of American han. You won\u2019t know what hit you until the final, perfect image.\u201d
\n\u2014Ed Park, author of\u00a0Same Bed Different Dreams<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them there. Ava has been estranged from her own mother, Dutchess, since she left her Alabama home as a young woman barely out of her teens. Despite their estrangement and the thousand miles between them, mother and daughter are deeply entwined, but Ava can\u2019t forgive her sharp-tongued, larger than life mother whose intractability and bouts of debilitating despair brought young Ava to the outer reaches of neglect and hunger. Ava wants to love her son differently, better. But when Toussaint\u2019s father, Cass, reappears, she is swept off course by his charisma, and the intoxicating power of his radical vision to destroy systems of racial injustice and bring about a bold new way of communal living.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Alabama, Dutchess struggles to keep Bonaparte, once a beacon of Black freedom and self-determination, in the hands of its last five Black residents\u2014families whose lives have been rooted in this stretch of land for generations\u2014and away from rapidly encroaching white developers. She fights against the erasure of Bonaparte\u2019s venerable history and the loss of the land itself, which she has so arduously preserved as Ava\u2019s inheritance. As Ava becomes more enmeshed with Cass, Toussaint senses the danger simmering all around him\u2014his well-intentioned but erratic mother; the intense, volatile figure of his father who drives his fledgling Philadelphia community toward ever increasing violence and instability. He begins to dream of Dutchess and Bonaparte, his home and birthright, if only he can find his way there.<\/p>\n

Brilliant, explosive, vitally important new work from one of America\u2019s most fiercely talented storytellers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Unsettled<\/em>\u00a0crosses generations and landscapes, digs in the Southern soil and walks mean Northern city streets. Expansive and explosive, this beauty of a novel showcases Ayana Mathis\u2019s grace on the page, as writer, as storyteller. A book to be read and re-read.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Jesmyn Ward, author of\u00a0Let Us Descend<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events.<\/strong>\u00a0Passes<\/a>\u00a0are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<\/div>","excerpt":"

From South Korea to the American South, two multi-generational novels explore inheritance, grief, and family. E. J. Koh’s debut novel is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma, and empathy, and a stunning testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance. From the best-selling author Ayana Mathis, a searing multi-generational new novel\u2014set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama\u2014about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival. 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Josie G. Mendoza & Hugh Mackworth Stage<\/h1>\n
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All-day festival stage with events from 10:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Book sales and signing on site from Powell’s Books (site<\/a>).<\/h3>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events.<\/strong>\u00a0Passes<\/a>\u00a0are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/h4>","excerpt":"

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E. J. Koh<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0The Magical Language of Others<\/em>, which won a Washington State Book Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Koh is also the author of the poetry collection\u00a0A Lesser Love<\/em>, a Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry winner. Koh\u2019s work has appeared in\u00a0AGNI<\/em>, the\u00a0Atlantic<\/em>,\u00a0Boston Review<\/em>,\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>,\u00a0Poetry<\/em>,\u00a0Slate<\/em>,\u00a0World Literature Today<\/em>, and elsewhere. Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University and her PhD at the University of Washington, and has received National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell fellowships. She lives in Seattle, Washington. Her new novel is\u00a0The Liberators.<\/em><\/p>\n

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