Kelsey Ford

Jan 3, 2024 | powells.com | Julie Myerson |Kelsey Ford

This week, we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month, Nonfiction by Julie Myerson. I’ve spent a lot of this last year thinking about family and the stories we tell about family. It’s been a difficult year for my family, which means that we’ve done a lot of reminiscing and storytelling as we process our loss and grief.

Aug 2, 2023 | powells.com | Rebekah Bergman |Kelsey Ford

This week, we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month, The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman. On a small isthmus, a crowd gathers to celebrate (or, maybe, to mourn) the twenty-fifth year of Maeve’s sleep — an eight-year-old who’s hasn’t aged a day in the nearly two decades since she fell into a coma following a near-drowning incident. But she’s not the only anomaly on this island.

Jul 7, 2023 | powells.com | Satoshi Yagisawa |Kelsey Ford

This week, we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa. The summer after I graduated from college, I spent a month sleeping between the stacks of Shakespeare & Co in Paris.

Jun 22, 2023 | powells.com | Lorrie Moore |Kelsey Ford

This week, we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore. Since my mom’s passing, I’ve had two recurring dreams: in the first, all of the teeth on the right side of my mouth disintegrate; they fall out like enamel crumbs, leaving my cheek a caved-in wreck (Google tells me that the meaning of this dream is that I must be going through some kind of monumental loss, which — ha, ha).

Mar 30, 2023 | powells.com | Kelly Link |Kelsey Ford

This week, we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month, White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link. I vividly remember the night I was first introduced to Kelly Link’s work. I was 18 — young and dumb and wildly shy, living across the country from where I grew up.