National Book Award-nominee Kimberly King Parsons is the bestselling author of We Were the Universe, a Dakota Johnson Book Club pick ranked #2 on TIME Magazine’s Best Books of 2024. The New York Times praised this debut novel as “a profound, gutsy tale of grief’s dismantling power” and it was a best book of 2024 in Elle, Oprah Daily, Marie Claire, Marie Claire UK and many others. Parsons’s debut collection, Black Light, was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, and the Texas Institute of Letters Fiction Award. An Oregon Book Award-winner, Parsons teaches fiction at Pacific University and lives in Portland with her family.
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The Literary Arts Bookstore is pleased to welcome Victoria Redel in celebration of her latest, I Am You, in conversation with 2025 Oregon Book Award Winner Kimberly King Parsons! An unforgettable love story about sex, art, and politics in 1600s Amsterdam. At age eight, Gerta Pieters is dressed as a boy and put to
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