SHELLEY KIRILENKO
Reading & Signing
EVENING IN MISSOULA
The ten
stories that make up Evening in Missoula
all take place on the same cold November evening in Missoula,
Montana. The characters, who range in nature from a grizzled Vietnam vet to a
visiting Ivy League professor, prove to be inexplicably intertwined with one
another. Their lives intersect at points of crisis: In “Continuing Education” a
middle-aged woman confronts the teacher who molested her twenty years prior, and
in “The Wolf” a born-again Christian bus driver confronts his checkered past
when an enigmatic passenger reminds him of a woman he once accosted. In
“Midnight” a young coed faces the painful prospect of leaving her high school
sweetheart for the exotic older cowboy who wants to elope with her, and in
“Going to Paris” a woman seeks to realize her deceased brother’s dreams of
leaving Montana and starting a business in Paris.
Thursday, July 30th
4:00 pm
F&F Downtown
