BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b8b044f4-347e-4fe9-98e2-b212f9f73a52@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T142950Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270105T210000 SUMMARY:Reading: Meghana Mysore with Mo Daviau DESCRIPTION:Annie Bloom's Books welcomes Meghana Mysore for a reading fro m her new story collection\, Let All Our Ghosts Depart. Meghana will be in conversation with fellow West Virginia University press author––and o ur very own bookseller––Mo Daviau. About Let All Our Ghosts Depart: In M eghana Mysore's debut short story collection\, present-day women and gir ls of the South Asian diaspora grapple with belonging and are haunted by intergenerational inheritances. Mysore\, herself the daughter of Indian immigrants\, spins her stories around narrators struggling to assimilat e into the surreal world around them. In the world of these stories\, gh osts are real––in "Repair Shop\," dead mothers reappear as chiding\, bro ken-down cars\; in "Hoarder\," the narrator's ex-lovers transform into s carves that won't let her go. In another story\, a daughter\, trapped in side her grief\, spends her days Face Timing with her dead father\, watc hing him become a young man she never knew. At turns absurd and darkly h umorous\, and sometimes speculative\, Mysore's stories touch on real-lif e experiences of intergenerational trauma\, womanhood\, the fluidity of desire and longing\, and coming home to one's body. Her characters have faced violences small and large\, holding losses that bind them to their pasts and weigh them down in daily life. Each of these stories contains an experience of transformation\, be it small or monumental for these w omen\, who find spaces of freedom and delight within their circumstances . Meghana Mysore's stories\, essays\, and poems have appeared in The Yal e Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Audacity\, and more. She is th e winner of the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction. Mysore has been a Steinbe ck Fellow and a scholar at McCormack Writing Center and Bread Loaf. She holds an MFA from Hollins University and a BA in English from Yale. Myso re has taught as visiting faculty at Amherst College and Bucknell Univer sity\, and is assistant professor of English and creative writing at Ran dolph College. From Portland\, Oregon\, Meghana is a daughter of Indian immigrants and a lover of non-sequiturs and used bookstores. Mo Daviau ( pronounced DAH-vee-oh) is the author of the novels Every Anxious Wave an d Epic and Lovely\, as well as a bunch of essays and such. Born and rais ed in Fresno and San Diego County\, California\, Mo is a graduate of Smi th College and the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Mich igan. A former resident of Los Angeles\, Austin\, and Johnson\, Vermont\ , Mo now lives in Portland\, Oregon\, with her husband\, who is a sound designer and all-around excellent cook. Like Nina\, the protagonist of E pic and Lovely\, Mo is an age gap baby and was diagnosed with a non-fict ional genetic disorder (Marfan syndrome) as a child. The two probably ha ve something to do with each other. Mo's dad would be 115 if he were sti ll alive (she's solidly Gen X). Mo is a bookseller and the event host at Annie Bloom’s Books\, a beloved Portland institution.\n\nMore info: htt p://annieblooms.com/event/2027-01-05/reading-meghana-mysore-mo-daviau\n\ nhttps://findlocal.community/event/b8b044f4-347e-4fe9-98e2-b212f9f73a52 LOCATION:Annie Bloom's Books\, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy\, Portland\, OR URL:https://findlocal.community/event/b8b044f4-347e-4fe9-98e2-b212f9f73a5 2 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR