Portland State Magazine Spring 2017

SPRING 2017 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 9 F A N F A R E A YEAR AFTER a catastrophic earthquake devastates Portland, Meryem Zarfati is still searching for her mother when she receives a magical prayer shawl and must detour to 16th century Istanbul to rescue a girl living in slavery. The novel Seven Stitches explores how we recover and rebuild after the worst has happened. Ruth Tenzer Feldman’s novel was published this winter by PSU’s student-run Ooligan Press. It is the third volume in Feldman’s Oregon Book Award-winning Blue Thread series for young adults. Another Ooligan young adult novel, Eliot Treichel’s A Series of Small Maneuvers , won an Oregon Book Award this spring. The latest from Ooligan LIFE WITHOUT A RECIPE: A MEMOIR OF FOOD AND FAMILY By Diana Abu-Jaber (English faculty), W.W. Norton & Company, 2016 THE PAPERMAKERS: MORE THAN RUN OF THE MILL By Robert J. Bresky ’04, CreateSpace, 2016 GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT: A NOVEL By Lily Brooks-Dalton MFA ’16, Random House, 2016 PROSTITUTION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WORLD By Gary Leiser ’69, I.B. Tauris, 2016 EARLY WOODS AND THE GUEST HOUSE MURDER By Olga Y. Kharif [Olga Kay Reef ] ’98, Post Mortem Press, 2016 INTERFACE By Lucy Mihajlich ’12, Interface Publishing, 2016 THUNDERLORD By Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross MS ’93, DAW, 2016 CALVIN TIBBETS: OREGON’S FIRST PIONEER By Jerry Sutherland ’89, CreateSpace, 2016 PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN ISLAM By Flamur Vehapi MA ’13, TaHa Publishers, 2016 A BRIEF ENCOUNTER: A TRUE STORY, A CRIME STORY AND A LOVE STORY By Susan A. York ’71, Walk with Grace Publishing, 2016 New Works