When I met Rachel King at the Portland Book Festival last November, there was something about her quiet presence, the way she watched people passing and seemed to really see them, that made me want
NONFICTION: An exquisite, aching memoir of adolescent girlhood. "Curing Season" by Kristine Langley Mahler; West Virginia University Press (192 pages, $21.99) ——— Adolescence is a time of instability, when the