WEEKEND: Author to read from novel at Forks Library this Saturday
Published 12:01 am Friday, December 19, 2014
FORKS — Port Angeles author and musician Patrick Loafman will read from his new novel, Somewhere Upriver, at the Forks Library, 171 S. Forks Ave., at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Loafman also will perform original music with a homemade kora, a West African 21-string instrument that is both a harp and a lute and looks like “a hybrid between a banjo and a suspension bridge.”
The reading and performance are both free.
Somewhere Upriver is the story of graduate student Douglas Mortimer as he journeys to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a great scientist.
When he hires an eccentric old herpetologist as a research assistant, his plans for a successful future are derailed.
Together, they enter a world of toxic salamanders, eccentric characters and government conspiracies.
Somewhere Upriver follows Douglas into places that will be familiar to residents of the Olympic Peninsula: the Queets Rain Forest, Whidbey Island and Sully’s Burgers in Forks.
The author’s visit is supported by the Friends of the Forks Library.
For more information, visit www.nols.org and click on “Events” and “Forks” or phone 360-374-6402.
