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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide her daughter the very best life possible, Land worked days and took classes online to earn a college degree, and began to write relentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. Maid (Hachette) explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them.

Free

PNCA Offsite Reading with Kelly Sundberg & Stephanie Land

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Please join host Monica Drake from PNCA for an offsite reading with bestselling authors Stephanie Land and Kelly Sundberg at Corporeal Center, March 29, 7:00 p.m. Presented on behalf of the PNCA Low Residency MFA and the BFA programs. Contact: Monica Drake

Free

Pam Houston and Stephanie Land

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

We are pleased to host authors Pam Houston and Stephanie Land reading from their most recent books. With prose as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Pam Houston's memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country delivers her most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief... to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive." On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. With her devoted…

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