The first nonfiction book by Portland novelist Pauls Toutonghi is on sale today, and Pauls will be touring the region starting tonight at Broadway Books. Broadway Books’ launch event for Dog Gone: A Lost Pet’s Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home will be an evening with a delightful duo, as a matter of …
Domestic animals are, above all else, companions. They accompany us in our daily lives. In this companionship, we allow them to witness so many parts of our lives; what they think of us ends up being a deep and unknowable darkness. In October 2015, Trinity University Press published Annick Smith’s gorgeous memoir, Crossing the Plains …
Pauls Toutonghi’s second novel, Evel Knievel Days, takes Khosi Saqr, a quirky, OCD-prone boy out of his comfort zone in Butte, Montana to Egypt in hopes of finding his estranged, compulsively-lying dad. It’s a novel worth celebrating, and that’s exactly what Toutonghi will do after his reading at Powell’s Books tomorrow night. The after-party will be …
