Annie Bloom's Books welcomes back Portland author Liz Prato for a reading from, Purgatoire, her novel-in-stories spanning several decades that traces how the shame and secrecy of one man's abandonment haunts a family for generations. Liz will be joined by Forest Avenue Press publisher Laura Stanfill.
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