The author of the “Miss Peregrine” series of books about peculiar children will discuss “The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry,” his first foray into Sunderworld.
Pomeroy was writer-in-residence at Marshall High School when it closed in 2011. “It was the last thing that community needed,” he says of the Southeast Portland neighborhood.
Nature is as much a character in the novel as the two women who bond over birds and their mutual concern for a 5-year-old boy who has stopped speaking.
The Portland author’s fourth novel, about a young woman seeking to solve the mystery of her lost brother, is surprising, immersive, and authentic.
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