Book Talk & Signing with Pulitzer Prize Finalist

   7pm Thurs., August 28th 

   Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, called "a most provocative Native American writer", with "her unparalleled gifts for truth and magic" (Barbara Kingsolver), has written a compassionate novel with a keen sense of environment, spirituality, and the trauma of war.  This is a  novel about the beauty of the natural world and the painful moral choices humans make in it. Her novel follows Thomas Witka, a man who left his Native American community, and his new, young wife, to fight in Vietnam. Witka fathers a child with another woman, only to return to America and leave the child behind. Events that take place after his return inspire him to take responsibility for his actions while in Vietnam, but tragedy strikes inevitably altering his attempt to right his wrongs. Linda Hogan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Mean Spirit. Her ancestry is Chickasaw and she is now an artist in residence for her tribe in Oklahoma. Linda will be signing all of her books including Mean Spirit (Ivy Books, $7.99 pb), The Book of Medicines- Poetry (Coffee House Press, $15.00 pb), Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (North Point Press, $14.00 pb) 


Hogan has an "unparalleled gift for truth and magic"-Barbara Kingsolver