October 4, 2017
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Minority & Small Business Week
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Haunted Walking Tours Back
Spend an
evening with
the strange and
peculiar
The Clark County Historical
Museum’s sixth annual Haunted
Walking Tours are reanimating
Fridays and Saturdays this Oc-
tober. The spooktacular trips are
at 8 p.m. each tour day and will
start at museum in Vancouver at
1511 Main St. Tickets are $12
per person for the public and $10
for museum members.
Centering on the strange and
Haunted excursions blending local myths, oral histories and research on Vancouver’s sometimes
sordid past are the backdrop for the Clark County Historical Museum’s Haunted Walking Tours each
Friday and Saturday night during the month of October.
Author Picked for Everybody Reads
peculiar, the haunted excursions
blend local myths, oral histories,
and research on Vancouver’s
sometimes sordid past. Build-
ings contain secrets, and we
shine the light into their dark-
ness. The museum itself plays a
role in several accounts of mys-
terious activities occurring in the
research library.
Individuals 13 years of age
and older are encouraged to
bring their curiosity and a flash-
light for some of the most au-
thentic thrills around.
Organizers said reservations
are limited, go quickly and
pre-payment is required. Call
360-993-5679 or visit cchmuse-
um.org to hold your spot.
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Hohsin Hamid a Pakistani writer who explores conditions of human displacement and migration in
his 2017 novel ‘Exit West,’ is this year’s featured book and author for Multnomah County Library’s
‘Everybody Reads’ program.
Hohsin Hamid
writes on
displacement
and migration
Multnomah County Library’s
annual community reading project
will feature the novel “Exit West,’
from acclaimed writer Hohsin
Hamid, this year’s featured book
and author for “Everybody Reads
2018.”
“Exit West” tells the story of
Nadia and Saeed, who begin their
love affair against an increasingly
unsettling backdrop of unrest and
violence. As conditions worsen,
the scope of human displacement
and migration begins to envelop
them as they seek ways out.
“Exit West examines many
of the questions – of safety, fate,
belonging, otherness – that sur-
round us today,” said Vailey Oe-
hike, Multnomah County Library
director. “Moshin Hamid takes
concepts that we sometimes treat
in abstract or clinical terms and
washes them in humanity to help
us think and feel differently. Exit
West is an incredible work.”
Hamid is a Pakistani writer
and author of four novels, Moth
Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fun-
damentalist (2007), How to Get
Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013),
and Exit West (2017), and a book
of essays, Discontent and Its Civ-
ilizations (2014). His writing has
been featured on bestseller lists,
adapted for the cinema, shortlisted
for the Man Booker Prize and the
PEN/Hemingway Award, selected
as winner or finalist of 20 awards,
and translated into 35 languages.
Extra copies of the books
will be available in February at
all neighborhood libraries, and
e-books will be downloadable
from the library catalog. Begin-
ning in February, readers will be
encouraged to share your thoughts
at a book discussion at your neigh-
borhood library or bookstore with
dates to be announced soon.
Hamid will be in Portland to
speak on April 5 at the Arlene
Schnitzer Concert Hall. Tickets
available from Literary Arts at lit-
erary-arts.org.
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