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In This Newsletter:
Po Bronson at St. Ignatius - Monday, March 8
Lisa See - Tuesday, March 9
Elaine Beale - Thursday, March 11
More Upcoming Events

BookShop West Portal Co-Hosts Po Bronson at St. Ignatius This Monday

Don’t forget to get your tickets to meet Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children - one of the most stunning and revelatory books on parenting in recent memory. Bronson's (and co-author Ashley Merryman's) findings will have you reconsidering some of our most commonly accepted ideas about child rearing.

Join us at St. Ignatius College Preparatory this Monday, March 8th at 6:30 pm. The price of admission, $30, includes a complimentary copy of NurtureShock. Additional tickets are $7 each. Tickets are available at BookShop West Portal and St. Ignatius College Preparatory, 2001 37th Avenue, SF, 94116. (Contact Carole Nickolai at 415-731-7500, ext. 235.)

Hope to see you there!

LISA SEE will read from
Shanghai Girls
Tuesday, March 9th 7 PM

The author of the critically acclaimed international bestselling novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, will read from her latest book, now in paperback. May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful and well-educated. Life is good until their father gambles away all of the family's money, putting them on the verge of bankruptcy. He arranges for his daughters to be married to "Gold Mountain men" who have come from LA to find brides. But the sisters, detained at Angel’s Island, are interrogated and humiliated for months. The situation becomes even more desperate when May discovers she’s pregnant.

Lisa See, daughter of Chinese immigrants on her father's side, writes: "This feeling - longing for home and missing the people left behind - is at the heart of the novel. We live in a nation of immigrants...This experience is the blood and tears of American experience."

ELAINE BEALE will read from
Another Life Altogether
Thursday, March 11th 7 PM

Beale's charming debut novel features 13-year-old Jesse Bennett, who longs to escape the humdrum life of Britain's East Yorkshire. But when her mother attempts suicide, her father moves the family farther into the country, where people are less than welcoming. Jesse eventually falls in with Tracey and Amanda, the toughest and most feared girls in town - a friendship that threatens to end unfavorably.

"...Dazzling in its authenticity and utterly absorbing, it is an uplifting story about adolescence, family, and finding one’s place in the world...a rare, insightful, and gorgeously written novel." — Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants

More March Events...

• RACHAEL HERRON will read from
  How to Knit a Love Song: A Cyprus Hollow Yarn
  Tuesday, March 16th at 7 PM


• KELLI STANLEY will read from
  City of Dragons
  Thursday, March 18th at 7 PM

Please visit our website to read more
about these and other upcoming events.

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