Alexis Smith presents Glaciers

Please join us in welcoming Portland author Alexis Smith, as she reads from her highly acclaimed debut novel, Glaciers.

Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska.

Glaciers unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel's sense of history, memory, and place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf. For Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the stories--the remnants--of those around her and she begins to tell her own story.

Event date: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
7834 SW Capitol Hwy
97219-2466 Portland
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ISBN: 9781935639206
Availability: Out of Print - Not Available
Published: Tin House Books - August 28th, 2012