Garaventa Center
Library
January 22, 2020
Author Lisa Ko’s 2017 debut novel The Leavers is the 2019-2020 selection for University of Portland’s annual ReadUP campaign and the Schoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writers series. Ko will give a lecture in Buckley Center Auditorium on Monday, February 10, at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Ko will follow the lecture with a book signing.
The Leavers was a National Book Award finalist, winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, and was named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Electric Literature, and others. According to a review in The Atlantic, “For topicality, Lisa Ko’s novel The Leavers, about an undocumented mother who suddenly disappears and the young American-born son she leaves behind, could hardly be better timed.”
ReadUP is an annual celebration of literature by the entire campus community. The community is invited to read “one book together,” and copies of the book of choice are distributed each year by the Clark Library. Discussion groups are formed in order to dissect the content and start a conversation. A UP online reading guide was created with more information about the book, author interviews, and reviews. The conversation culminates with a public lecture and discussion by the author of the book of the year. The event is a part of the Schoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life & American Culture, Clark Library, Office of Residence Life, the Office of University Relations, and the Office of Marketing and Communications.
For more information about ReadUP, contact the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life & American Culture at garaventa@up.edu or 503.943.7702.
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