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Blue Sky. If you so desire, it is Sunday. Happy Sunday. I hope you went out protesting yesterday. I

hope you made some signs and you marched. You got out into the streets. And if you missed it this time, don't miss it next time. If you can avoid it. You know what I'm saying? If you can avoid missing it. Don't try to avoid the protesting. That's what I'm saying. You got to do it. We all got to do it. I got to do it. I don't know what it's going to do, but I think you just got to get out into the streets and community with other people.

So, yeah, as I was saying, it's Sunday, and as such, it is time now for another Character Studies episode where I interview a civilian.

I've got a good one for you today, and it's coming up

momentarily. Today's episode is brought to you by Simon & Schuster, publisher of the debut novel

Tilt by Emma Patti. Set over the course of a single day, Tilt is an electrifying debut novel about one woman's

journey across a transformed city, carrying the weight of her past and a fervent hope for the

future. Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits

Portland, Oregon, with no way to reach her husband, no phone, no money, and a city left in chaos.

There's nothing to do, but walk. Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences

human desperation and human kindness,

strangers offering to help a riot at a grocery store and an unlikely friendship with a young mother.

As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby.

If she can just make it home, she is determined to change her life.

A propulsive debut, Tilt, is a primal scream of a novel about the disappointments and desires we all carry and what each of us will do

for the people we love. That's Tilt, the debut novel by Emma Patti, available from Simon

and Schuster. So it kind of sounds like diehard in Portlandland but it's like with an earthquake and a woman in her third trimester

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