BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 RDATE:20140309T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 RDATE:20141102T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140213T200000 LOCATION:Frank Manor House GEO:45.450219;-122.670175 SUMMARY:A Fiction Reading by Ismet Prcic DESCRIPTION:A Fiction Reading by Ismet Prcic\, 2013 Oregon Book Award Wi nner \; Ismet Prcic's brilliant and provocative debut novel is abo ut a young Bosnian\, also named Ismet Prcic\, who has fled his war-torn h omeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to move forward he must "writ e everything." The result is a great rattle bag of memories\, confessions \, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet's childhood in T uzla appear alongside anguished letters to his mother about the challenge s of life in this new world. And as Ismet's foothold in the present falls away\, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man—real or imagined—named Mustafa\, who joine d a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. When Mustafa's story begins to overshadow Ismet's New World identity\, the reader is ch arged with piecing together the fragments of a life that has become eeril y unrecognizable\, even to the one living it. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Ismet Prcic's brilliant and provocative debut novel is about a young Bosnian\, also nam ed Ismet Prcic\, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to move forward he must "write everything." The result is a great rattle bag of memories\, confessions\, and fictions: sweetly humo rous recollections of Ismet's childhood in Tuzla appear alongside anguish ed letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world. And as Ismet's foothold in the present falls away\, his writings are furt her complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man— real or imagined—named Mustafa\, who joined a troop of elite soldiers a nd stayed in Bosnia to fight. When Mustafa's story begins to overshadow I smet's New World identity\, the reader is charged with piecing together t he fragments of a life that has become eerily unrecognizable\, even to th e one living it.
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