Mia Spangenberg presents 'BACKLIGHT' by Pirkko Saisio

Northwest Literary Translator Mia Spangenberg returns from her new base in Finland to join fellow translator Elizabeth Denoma to celebrate the release of the final book in Pirkko Saisio's autofiction trilogy, Backlight. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required in advance.

This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. 

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This event is free to attend. Registration is required in advance.

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About Backlight

Pirkko Saisio, now a teenager, can't decide which she hates most: God, her father, or her growing breasts. Grandpa has moved into the room long promised to her, and Mother, overworked and distant, tries to keep the peace between her headstrong daughter and husband. When she's not escaping into her books, Pirkko has fun getting into trouble. That is until her Finnish teacher suggests she might have what it takes to be a real writer, but only if she is willing to work hard and make certain sacrifices.

Years later, Pirkko spends the historic summer of 1968 working at a Swiss orphanage. The world is shifting around her, and to make matters even more complicated: she's homesick. At the orphanage no one understands her German, and away from home for the first time, she struggles to make sense of her suppressed queerness. In Backlight, the Finlandia Prize-winning author looks backward and inward, once again emerging, in Mia Spangenberg's sensitive translation, with an intimate portrait of a life lived in language.

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