Author Heather Sharfeddin will read from her novel, “A Delicate Divide,” on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room, in the Linfield College Nicholson Library.
Sharfeddin’s novel is based on her doctoral research depicting racial and cultural tensions and also deals with post-Civil Rights tensions within the interior West. It draws on a historic event, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ water compact proposal, which threatens to strip land owners within reservation borders of their longstanding water rights.
Sharfeddin is the author of several novels about the Pacific Northwest and numerous essays, articles, and reviews. Her work has earned high acclaim from Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal, has been honored with an Eric Hoffer award, and at the New York and San Francisco Book Festivals, as well as the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. She holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is completing a Ph.D. in creative writing. She has taught writing at Randolph Macon College and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and is currently an adjunct professor at Linfield College.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte, library director, at 503-883-2517 or swhyte@linfield.edu.
