Event: 
Action Center Speaker Series Featuring Tracy Kidder - SOLD OUT

Best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder comes to Portland to discuss his new book, Strength in What Remains : A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting.

Kidder tells the story of Deo, a survivor of the Tutsi-Hutu genocide. A young medical student in Burundi, Deo escapes to America and becomes a homeless person living in New York's Central Park who then manages to eke out a subsistence living delivering groceries. Through a series of miraculous encounters, he graduates from Columbia University and returns home to build a medical clinic in his native Burundi. Author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Home Town, House and The Soul of a New Machine among others, Kidder is also the recipient of the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. He lives in Massachusetts and Maine.

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Mercy Corps Action Center Community Room
28 SW 1st in Portland, OR
7:30pm (Enter through 45 SW Ankeny Entrance)

TICKETS: $20 (includes admission and a copy of the book) go on sale Monday, Sept. 28th until sold out. SOLD OUT

Phone orders: Call 503-896-5701, starting September 28, to place an order with a credit card. If you reach voice mail, please leave your phone number and we'll return the call as soon as possible. Tickets are very limited.

Our generous sponsors are Columbia Distributing, Bank of America, NW Natural, Bob's Red Mill, Capital Pacific Bank, Longbottom Coffee and Tea Company, Shiel Obletz Johnson, ISOS and Wells Fargo.

This event is brought to you by the Oregon Council for the Humanities & the Mercy Corps Action Center

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