BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 RDATE:20110313T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 RDATE:20111106T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111004T200000 LOCATION:Manor House\, Armstrong Lounge SUMMARY:A Reading of "Birds of Paradise" by Diana Abu-Jaber DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of English for a reading of Birds of Paradise \;by author Diana Abu-Jaber. Diana Abu-Jaber was born in Upstate New York and lived there until she was 7 when her family moved t o Amman for two years. Her father is Jordanian and her mother is American \, and she has lived between America and Jordan ever since. She received her doctorate in English literature from the State University of New York . She has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Mic higan\, the University of Oregon\, and UCLA. \; She is most recently the author of Birds of Paradise\, \;an Indie Books Pick\, as well as of the award winning memoir\, The Language of Baklava\, \;the best-se lling novels Origin \;and Crescent\, which was awarded the 2004 PEN C enter USA Award for Literary Fiction and the American Book Award. Her fir st novel Arabian Jazz \;won the 1994 Oregon Book Award and was a fina list for the PEN/Hemingway Award. A frequent contributor to NPR\, she te aches at Portland State University and divides her time between Portland and Miami. \;"Abu-Jaber makes us wonder about more that what will h appen to one girl with a guilty secret. What\, after all\, does it mean t o be a family? Is love really 'exchangeable\, malleable'? We can't help t urning pages full of stunning prose to find out." (Sarah Nelson - \;O Magazine \;)"Diana Abu-Jaber's gorgeous novel explores the ways a mo dern family can break down and be reborn. She writes with a precise\, alm ost poetic distillation of feeling\, heightened in contrast to the ripe\, exuberant landscape and the unsettled feelings of a family in limbo." (A my Driscoll - \;Miami Herald \;)"With \;Birds of Paradise\, A bu-Jaber has made an amazing\, gigantic leap into rare air\, that hazy st ratosphere we jokingly call The Big Time. Her novel is that worthy\, and that beautiful." (Christine Selk - \;The Oregonian \;)"The Muirs' absorbing story builds to a thoroughly satisfying climax." (Sue Corbett - \;People Magazine \;) \; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Please join the Department of English f
or a reading of Birds of Paradise \;by author Diana Abu-Jabe
r.
Diana Abu-Jaber was born in Upstate New York and l ived there until she was 7 when her family moved to Amman for two years. Her father is Jordanian and her mother is American\, and she has lived be tween America and Jordan ever since. She received her doctorate in Englis h literature from the State University of New York. She has taught litera ture and creative writing at the University of Michigan\, the University of Oregon\, and UCLA. \; She is most recently the author of Birds of Paradise\, \;an Indie Books Pick\, as well as of the award w inning memoir\, The Language of Baklava\, \;the best-selling novels Origin \;and Crescent\, which was awarded t he 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the American Book A ward. Her first novel Arabian Jazz \;won the 1994 Oregon Boo k Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
A frequen t contributor to NPR\, she teaches at Portland State University and divid es her time between Portland and Miami.
\;"Abu-Jaber mak
es us wonder about more that what will happen to one girl with a guilty s
ecret. What\, after all\, does it mean to be a family? Is love really 'ex
changeable\, malleable'? We can't help turning pages full of stunning pro
se to find out." (Sarah Nelson - \;O Magazine \;)
"Diana Abu-Jaber's gorgeous novel explores the ways a modern family
can break down and be reborn. She writes with a precise\, almost poetic d
istillation of feeling\, heightened in contrast to the ripe\, exuberant l
andscape and the unsettled feelings of a family in limbo." (Amy Driscoll
- \;Miami Herald \;)
"With \;Birds of Par
adise\, Abu-Jaber has made an amazing\, gigantic leap into rare air\, tha
t hazy stratosphere we jokingly call The Big Time. Her novel is that wort
hy\, and that beautiful." (Christine Selk - \;The Oregonian \;)
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"The Muirs' absorbing story builds to a thoroughly sat
isfying climax." (Sue Corbett - \;People Magazine \;) \;