# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Powell's Presents: Yrsa Daley-Ward in Conversation With Lydia Kiesling
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 16 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl Books series, Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Catch (Liveright) is a darkly whimsical tale of women daring to live and create with impunity. Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. As infants they were adopted into different families, Clara sent to live with a successful, upper-class couple, and Dempsey with a sullen, unaffectionate city councilor. In adulthood, they are content to be all but estranged, until Clara sees a woman who looks exactly like their mother on the streets of London. The catch: this version of Serene, aged not a day, has enjoyed a childless life — the very life, it seems, she might have had if the girls had never been born. As with most things, Clara and Dempsey cannot see eye to eye on the confounding appearance of this woman. Clara, a celebrity author with a penchant for excessive drinking and one-night stands, is all too willing to welcome the confident and temperamental Serene into her home. But cloistered Dempsey, who makes a modest living doing menial data entry work from the confines of her apartment, is dubious of the whole situation, believing this all to be the insidious ruse of a con woman. Clashing over this stranger who burrows deeper and deeper into their lives, the sisters hurtle toward an altercation that threatens their very existence, forcing them to finally confront their pasts — together. In her riveting first foray into fiction, Daley-Ward conjures a kaleidoscopic multiverse of daughterhood and mother-want, exploring the sacrifices that women must make for self-actualization. The result is a marvel of a debut novel that boldly asks, “How can it ever, ever be a crime to choose yourself?” Daley-Ward will be joined in conversation by Lydia Kiesling, author of Mobility.

Buy the book: https://www.powells.com/events/yrsa-daley-ward-in-conversation-with-lydia-kiesling-6-16-25
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/powells-presents-yrsa-daley-ward-in-conversation-with-lydia-kiesling/200028177336730
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 8

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.powells.com/events/yrsa-daley-ward-in-conversation-with-lydia-kiesling-6-16-25?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=portland-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Portland
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books)
- **lat**: 45.52319
- **long**: -122.68142
- **full address**: Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books), 1005 W Burnside ST,Portland, Oregon, United States

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- **organizer**: Powell's Books, Inc. (https://allevents.in/org/powells-books-inc/2049459)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 16 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books), 1005 W Burnside ST,Portland, Oregon, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Powell's Books, Inc.
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Powell's Presents: Yrsa Daley-Ward in Conversation With Lydia Kiesling ?
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