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A. Molotkov launches his novel A Slight Curve, with Michael Keefe and his Western Terminus
Event by: Anatoly Molotkov
Location: Broadway Books, Northeast Broadway 1714, Portland
About event
A. Molotkov presents his second novel, A Slight Curve, in conversation with Michael Keefe presenting his new collection of short stories and a novella, Western Terminus.
About "A Slight Curve":
Ulrike is an East German immigrant and Stasi survivor who still struggles with the effects of the totalitarian regime on her psyche. Her husband Peter is one of the people who must pay the price.
Ruth is a California chemist with secrets in her family who just lost her father under mysterious circumstances and is witnessing her mother’s descent into alcoholism.
When Ulrike is gone, a hesitant friendship starts between Peter and Ruth. Or is it more than a friendship?
Follow these strong, opinionated women on their paths before and after a pivotal moment that bonds their lives forever, even beyond death.
Preorder: https://broadwaybooks.net/book/9781963869170?ic_referral=51mdtFcmsXLNgmbd2Evc663pKeqXJVRUgUfEA2ljeTgwM6X3y-3A1lmEVNjjG1TcyQ9QSEJl4aRsMXaIBEh8686omNgIWteiMLS-ACtxPpgRxt1wQsRmWVcHORvPkHXs2x5M
A. Molotkov is an immigrant writer and the author of the novels A Bag Full of Stones. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things, Application of Shadows, Synonyms for Silence, and Future Symptoms. His memoir A Broken Russia Inside Me won the Trail to Table Book Award from Wandering Aengus and will be out in 2026. Molotkov co-edits The Inflectionist Review. Please visit him at AMolotkov.com.
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Western Terminus:
Heartbroken Chloe is obsessed with a lion escaped from the Portland Zoo. A man revisits an old flame, a nemesis, and the granite quarry where he played dangerous games in his youth. A boy witnesses the disintegration of his parents' marriage at a motel in the California desert. Zane takes his girlfriend's son to a drug house in the Northwest woodlands. Kate follows a poet into remote 1980s Tijuana in pursuit of a rumored tunnel beneath the international border. And Doug returns to the Southern California farm where he was raised and must now grapple with the ghosts of the past. In tales tinged with magical realism, Michael Keefe's characters find themselves caught in the limbo between self-discovery and self-destruction.
Preorder: https://annieblooms.com/book/9781968148089
Michael Keefe is the author of All Her Loved Ones, Encoded (2024). Born and raised in the West, he is the Events Coordinator and Publicist at Annie Bloom's Books, an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife, the author Liz Prato, and their two cats.
About "A Slight Curve":
Ulrike is an East German immigrant and Stasi survivor who still struggles with the effects of the totalitarian regime on her psyche. Her husband Peter is one of the people who must pay the price.
Ruth is a California chemist with secrets in her family who just lost her father under mysterious circumstances and is witnessing her mother’s descent into alcoholism.
When Ulrike is gone, a hesitant friendship starts between Peter and Ruth. Or is it more than a friendship?
Follow these strong, opinionated women on their paths before and after a pivotal moment that bonds their lives forever, even beyond death.
Preorder: https://broadwaybooks.net/book/9781963869170?ic_referral=51mdtFcmsXLNgmbd2Evc663pKeqXJVRUgUfEA2ljeTgwM6X3y-3A1lmEVNjjG1TcyQ9QSEJl4aRsMXaIBEh8686omNgIWteiMLS-ACtxPpgRxt1wQsRmWVcHORvPkHXs2x5M
A. Molotkov is an immigrant writer and the author of the novels A Bag Full of Stones. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things, Application of Shadows, Synonyms for Silence, and Future Symptoms. His memoir A Broken Russia Inside Me won the Trail to Table Book Award from Wandering Aengus and will be out in 2026. Molotkov co-edits The Inflectionist Review. Please visit him at AMolotkov.com.
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Western Terminus:
Heartbroken Chloe is obsessed with a lion escaped from the Portland Zoo. A man revisits an old flame, a nemesis, and the granite quarry where he played dangerous games in his youth. A boy witnesses the disintegration of his parents' marriage at a motel in the California desert. Zane takes his girlfriend's son to a drug house in the Northwest woodlands. Kate follows a poet into remote 1980s Tijuana in pursuit of a rumored tunnel beneath the international border. And Doug returns to the Southern California farm where he was raised and must now grapple with the ghosts of the past. In tales tinged with magical realism, Michael Keefe's characters find themselves caught in the limbo between self-discovery and self-destruction.
Preorder: https://annieblooms.com/book/9781968148089
Michael Keefe is the author of All Her Loved Ones, Encoded (2024). Born and raised in the West, he is the Events Coordinator and Publicist at Annie Bloom's Books, an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife, the author Liz Prato, and their two cats.