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The Edge of Water: Olufunke Grace Bankole
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Olufunke Grace Bankole reads and discusses her debut novel The Edge of Water, in conversation with Margaret Malone.
Join us as we celebrate the debut novel from Portland author and Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient Olufunke Grace Bankole, published by our friends at Portland’s own Tin House.
Set between Nigeria and New Orleans, The Edge of Water tells the story of a young woman who dreams of life in America, as the collision of traditional prophecy and individual longing tests the bonds of a family during a devastating storm.
This event is free and open to the public at our new headquarters and bookstore at 716 SE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR.
Olufunke Grace Bankole
Olufunke Grace Bankole is the author of The Edge of Water (Tin House Books), winner of the Westport Prize for Literature and the John C. Zacharis First Book Award, as well as a Best Book of the Year at TIME, Apple, Electric Literature, Chicago Review of Books, and more. The novel has been widely praised, including by Oprah Daily, Goodreads, Book Riot, and was finalist for the New American Voices Award and the Pacific Northwest Book Awards. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Bankole's work has appeared in numerous publications, including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and AGNI. Her writing has received support from such organizations as the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Sitka Center.
Margaret Malone
Margaret Malone is the host of PAM CUT’s Movie Book Club, the literary radio show Bust the Canon on xray.fm, and author of the story collection People Like You, a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize, and selected by Powell’s as one of the Northwest’s “25 Books to Read Before You Die."
Margaret lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children, where she mentors established and emerging writers of all genres on their individual projects in person and online. Reach out sometime to say hello at margaretmalone.com. The recipient of grants, fellowships, and residencies from MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, Sitka Center, Literary Arts and others, she’s been working hard lately at being more flinty and unreasonable in daily life. She’s also in the death throes of completing a novel.
