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Kate Hope Day in Conversation With Lindsey Lee Johnson

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by mysterious visions of an alternate reality in Kate Hope Day’s dazzling debut, If, Then (Random House). Startling and deeply imagined, Day’s debut novel is about the choices we make that shape our lives and determine our destinies – the moments that alter us so profoundly that it feels as if we’ve entered another reality. Day will be joined in conversation by Lindsey Lee Johnson, author of The Most Dangerous Place on Earth.

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Debut Authors ’19 Reading

Enso Winery 1416 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading by over a dozen authors with debut books arriving (or already arrived!) in 2019. Readers will include Kate Hope Day (If, Then), Susan Bernhard (Winter Loon), K Chess (Famous Men Who Never Lived), Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Sabrina & Corina), Aatif Rashid (Portrait of Sebastian Khan), Julia Phillips (Disappearing Earth), James Charlesworth (The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill), Rachel Howard (The Risk of Us), Daniela Petrova (Her Daughter's Mother), Layne Fargo (Temper), William Dameron (The Lie), Marco Rafalà (How Fires End), Keena Roberts (Wild Life), and possibly more! Contact: James Charlesworth

Free

Kate Hope Day

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

In If, Then, the residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines family-driven suspense with inventive storytelling. The novel is set in the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, where four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in parallel realities: Ginny, a devoted surgeon whose work often takes precedence over her family; Ginny's husband, Mark, a wildlife scientist; Samara, a young woman desperately mourning the recent death of her mother and questioning why her father seems to be coping with such ease; and Cass, a brilliant scholar struggling with the demands of new motherhood. At first the visions are relatively benign, but they grow increasingly disturbing. When a…

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