David Tromblay & Terese Marie Mailhot

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Acclaimed memoirists David Tromblay and Terese Marie Mailhot come together for a wonderful virtual event. 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

David Tromblay served in the U.S. Armed Forces for over a decade before attending the Institute of American Indian Arts for his MFA in Creative Writing. He's since written and published a memoir and three novels. He currently works as an editor for Shotgun Honey Magazine and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his cats, Walter and Winston, and dogs, Bentley and Hank.

Terese Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. Her work has appeared in GuernicaThe GuardianMother JonesMediumAl Jazeera, the Los Angeles Times, and "Best American Essays." She is the New York Times bestselling author of "Heart Berries: A Memoir." Her book was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Nonfiction, and was selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018. Her book was also the January 2020 pick for Now Read This, a book club from PBS Newshour and The New York TimesHeart Berries was also listed as an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, a Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, and was one of Harper's Bazaar's Best Books of 2018. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, and she is also the recipient of the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University and VCFA. 

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Monday, May 17, 2021 - 7:00pm
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As You Were By David Tromblay Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781950539222
Availability: In stock at our distributor’s warehouse; will be at the Raven in 3-10 bus. days! More at ravenbookstore.com/ordering-faqs
Published: Dzanc Books - February 16th, 2021

*Launch at Magic City Books in Tulsa, OK, will be a Q&A and signing, hosted by Sterlin Harjo, a Native filmmaker
*Virtual event with Brandon Hobson, a 2019 National Book Award finalist and former child social worker for Oklahoma
*Additional events in Oklahoma City, Dallas, Austin, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Denver, Lawrence, KS and author's hometown (Duluth, MN)


Heart Berries: A Memoir By Terese Marie Mailhot Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781640091603
Availability: In stock at our distributor’s warehouse; will be at the Raven in 3-10 bus. days! More at ravenbookstore.com/ordering-faqs
Published: Counterpoint - April 9th, 2019

A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest—this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick is “an illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience . . . at once raw and achingly beautiful (NPR).


The Essentials By David Tromblay Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781952600067
Availability: In stock at our distributor’s warehouse; will be at the Raven in 3-10 bus. days! More at ravenbookstore.com/ordering-faqs
Published: Whiskey Tit - January 21st, 2021

The not-too-distant future. The global population reaches ten billion, leaving the planet at its breaking point. The population is being thinned; its people, their professions, and their health are reclassified: Essential or Nonessential.



Sangre Road By David Tromblay Cover Image
$13.95
This book is hard-to-find or out of print and we may not be able to get it. Email for more details.
ISBN: 9781643961910
Published: Shotgun Honey - April 23rd, 2021

Introducing Moses Kincaid, an ornery, brazen, and possibly punch-drunk bounty hunter who must track down a skip trace into rural Oklahoma-circa summer 1995.


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