This post is an article from the Spring 2017 issue of the OYAN Review and has been edited slightly for publication on the blog. It was written by Ian Duncanson of the Beaverton City Library and Lisa Elliot of the Tigard Public Library.
Lisa: On January 21, 35 folks attended the 2017 Mock Printz work shop at the Central Branch of Multnomah Public Library. Meanwhile, 100,000 people descended on downtown Portland for the Women’s March. That’s right, 100,000 demonstrators, 35 workshop attendees, and I still got a parking spot. For next year, we’ll work a little harder to anticipate political upheaval, thus avoiding major advocacy schedule conflicts. For this year, however, I was happy to spend the afternoon in a warm, dry room with 35 librarians and teens in solidarity over our love of good books. Ian, how was your day?
Zen Starling is a thief. He’s pretty good at it too. Until the day a red head dressed in a trench coat follows him across the galaxy to his home. He had hopped the rails as usual and zipped across the cosmos on the Interstellar Express, a sentient train that travels planet to planet using wormholes that only the Guardians understand. He was sure that he had lost her when the train passed through the first gate. Everyone knows that nothing can follow through a dark hole. But, surprise, surprise, the redhead is soon standing outside his crummy apartment on his home world. Zen may be a thief, but he will do anything to protect his disabled mother and bossy older sister, including leaving home. But can he run far enough and fast enough to evade the trench coat? Who, or what, is she? The police? A rival thief? More importantly, if she’s not police, what does she want?
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