Tickets for this event are $5 general admission or book purchase.
Join climate journalist Emma Pattee to discuss her debut novel, Tilt, with Morgan Schmidt, Executive Director, Central and Eastern Oregon Chapter, Red Cross.
Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel from “a powerful new literary voice” (Vogue) following one woman’s journey across a transformed city, carrying the weight of her past and a fervent hope for the future.
Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen.
Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there’s nothing to do but walk.
Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she’s determined to change her life.
A propulsive debut, Tilt is a primal scream of a novel about the disappointments and desires we all carry, and what each of us will do for the people we love.
Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and fiction writer. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She lives in Oregon.
Morgan Schmidt is the Executive Director of the Central & Eastern Oregon Chapter of the American Red Cross. She is a community leader and ordained Presbyterian pastor who advocates for the common good across Deschutes County. Before coming to the Red Cross, she spent 17 years as a leader of faith communities in Seattle and Bend. She founded and continues to lead the Pandemic Partners-Bend mutual aid group of neighbors caring for neighbors and crowdsourcing kindness. She serves on the board of Volunteers in Medicine of Central Oregon and enjoys serving as a facilitator & host for local nonprofit events. Morgan loves connecting good people with good causes, building collaborative networks, and advocating for her neighbors. You can find her in Bend dancing, paddling the river, picking up heavy things just to put them back down, and stuck in a cycle of neglecting and reviving various doomed house plants.
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