Tue, Sep 03
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Pam Houston, Without Exception, Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom
“Pam Houston has written a deeply personal, taboo-busting collection of micro-essays illustrating the hypocrisies and shell game of abortion, arguing that abortion is a basic health right, motherhood is a choice, and we need to fight like hell for the freedom to make these decisions.” Julie Buckles
Date, Time & Location
Sep 03, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here.
Pre-order Without Exception (paperback, $15.95, coming September 2024) from CW here, or call the store to pre-order (505) 988-4226
About the Book
Without Exception is an unflinching call for freedom by way of abortion rights.
Pam Houston tells the story of how her personal and professional life was powered by access to abortion. Alongside her own account, Houston examines the legal history of abortion and shines a bright light on the impact of reproductive rights on all American women during the days Roe v. Wade was the law of the land.
“Houston has written this book with a demotic unpretentiousness and an irreducible clarity that can only come with having walked the walk, spending years doing the kind of quiet behind-the-scenes lifework that matures the spirit. Houston says ugly truths she doesn’t need to say, things no one would fault her for leaving out, because she knows there’s a reader somewhere who will find the world more hospitable for having read them. To me, that's rigor. That’s love.”
—KAVEH AKBAR, Martyr!
About Pam Houston
Pam Houston is the author of the memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and the essay collection A Little More About Me. Houston teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing MFA program, is a Professor of English at UC Davis, and cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at nine thousand feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.