Hot Springs, Montana author Matt Pavelich returns to Elk River Books to read from and discuss his two just-published books: The Harrows: A Novel of the American Century, and a collection of short stories, But Tell It Slant: Fierce Fictions, on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 7 pm. Elk River Books is located at 122 S. 2nd St. The event is free and will be followed by a reception and book signing.
According to the publisher, “The Harrows, Pavelich’s third novel, after Our Savage and The Other Shoe, begins at the start of the 20th century with Charlie Harrow, erstwhile freighter, and his beloved Dove, schoolmarm and homesteader in her own right, establishing the family farm on Montana’s fabled Square Butte Bench, a ‘place of taunting, receding horizons.’ The novel ends at the same place, with the return of a great-granddaughter intent, unaccountably, on continuing the family operation.
“Titled after the classic Emily Dickinson line, ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant,’ But Tell It Slant consists of nine short stories and the title novella. As in Pavelich’s previous story collection, Survivors Said, the fictions in But Tell It Slant are, in the words of novelist Gish Gen, ‘vintage Pavelich; sharp-sighted and phrased just so, they are singularly alert to the worlds in a word.’”
Pavelich was born in St. Ignatius, Montana, and grew up on a ranch on the Flathead Indian Reservation. He attended the University of Montana, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the Northwest School of Law. His short story collection, Beasts of the Forest, Beasts of the Field, won the Montana First Book Award. He is the recipient of Michener and Montana Arts Council fellowships and works as a Lake County public defender.
For those who can’t attend in person, the event will live-stream at YouTube.com/ElkRiverBooks.
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