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Reading: Cleah's Bequest by Mari Matthias in conversation with Summer Stewart

  • Rose City Book Pub 1329 Northeast Fremont Street Portland, OR, 97212 United States (map)

Cleah Lucky was difficult in life. In death she is even worse. 

When her three estranged children gather for the reading of her will, they expect complications. They do not expect a master list of demands. Holiday gatherings. Approved menus. Required outfits. Designated games and an anthem. The list goes on, including a rotating custody schedule for her urn. Thanks to a legally airtight trust, they cannot collect a cent unless they cooperate. As the siblings attempt to honor their mother's absurd instructions, resentment builds, alliances shift, and their grip on patience (and even on their sanity) stretches paper thin. 

Set in the Pacific Northwest and primarily the greater Portland area, Cleah's Bequest is an irreverent and heartwarming tale about what we owe the people who raised us and the price of getting what we think we deserve.

Earlier Event: August 14
Open Mic: Portland Lit Mic