Reading: Elissa Minor with Nancy Judd Minor

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Annie Bloom's Books welcomes Elissa Minor for a reading from her new memoir, Another Eve: Shame and Desire on the Oregon Coast. Elissa will be in conversation with her mother and fellow author, Nancy Judd Minor. About Another Eve: Shame and Desire on the Oregon Coast: When she walks away from the Mormon church and a twenty-five-year marriage, Elissa Minor abandons the only life she’s ever known to embrace her identity as a queer woman. In this intimate memoir, she explores shame, desire, beauty, and acceptance. Minor realizes that her desire isn’t the problem but the solution. Finding solace outside of the church in the wilderness that surrounds her, she eventually begins to understand what it really means to be pure and worthy. On the rugged terrain of the northern Oregon coast, Minor discovers passion and harmony in the grip of nature and in the arms of a lover who will become her wife. In the salty sea air, she learns that her own queerness—though less-charted territory—is like her love of backwoods hiking and that to accept her sexuality, she must take full pleasure in the wild that encompasses her. Poignant and powerful, Another Eve re-examines past truths and celebrates honoring oneself and living authentically. For Minor, the end of her transformation is only the beginning. Elissa Minor is the author of the memoir Another Eve: Shame and Desire on the Oregon Coast and the award-winning collection The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake. Her work has appeared in New Letters, Glimmer Train, Juxtaprose, Baltimore Review, The Ledge, and Crab Creek Revie w, among others. She lives on the north Oregon coast with her wife and their two dogs. Nancy Judd Minor, a former high school English teacher, is now retired and doing it well. Besides finally finishing Malheur August, she has taken up painting—when not birding, reading, and gardening. She lives in her beloved Oregon with her partner, Jerry, and their two cats.

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• Elissa Minor with Nancy Judd MinorAuthor

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Annie Bloom's Books

7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR

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