Manzanita Writers Series presents with free admission supported by a grant from the Oregon Community Foundation
Please register in advance; walk-ins welcome as space allows
Join us for a riveting reading and Q&A discussion with Emma Pattee, climate journalist and fiction author of the debut novel TILT.
Set over the course of a single day, Tilt follows Annie’s intense journey through a transformed cityscape of Portland, OR, after a devastating earthquake strikes while she is shopping for a crib for her soon-to-arrive baby. Alternating between Annie’s present-day experience and her past, Tilt delivers themes of crisis and survival, identity and motherhood, and human kindness amidst desperation.
Recognition for Tilt
“A moving adrenaline rush that also manages to be very funny."
New York Times Book Review
“The storytelling in Tilt is brisk [and] as funny as a novel about humanity at its worst can be… Pattee’s ambivalence about human goodness is a powerful thing; it calls into question the assumptions we make about ourselves.”
The Washington Post
"Pattee takes the novel’s elements — the apocalyptic setting, the cutting social observation, the acerbic takes on marriage and motherhood — and shakes them into a potent cocktail."
New York Times
"Propulsive."
The New Yorker
About the Author
Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and fiction writer. She has written about climate change for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more.
In 2021, she coined the term “Climate Shadow” to describe an individual’s potential impact on climate change. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Idaho Review,New Orleans Review, Carve Magazine, Citron Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.
Her debut novelTILT is a national bestseller, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, named one of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, an NPR favorite fiction read of 2025, and named by NPR, Time, Vogue and Bustle as a best book of the year.
Manzanita Writers Series presents with free admission supported by a grant from the Oregon Community Foundation
Please register in advance; walk-ins welcome as space allows
Join us for a riveting reading and Q&A discussion with Emma Pattee, climate journalist and fiction author of the debut novel TILT.
Set over the course of a single day, Tilt follows Annie’s intense journey through a transformed cityscape of Portland, OR, after a devastating earthquake strikes while she is shopping for a crib for her soon-to-arrive baby. Alternating between Annie’s present-day experience and her past, Tilt delivers themes of crisis and survival, identity and motherhood, and human kindness amidst desperation.
Recognition for Tilt
“A moving adrenaline rush that also manages to be very funny."
New York Times Book Review
“The storytelling in Tilt is brisk [and] as funny as a novel about humanity at its worst can be… Pattee’s ambivalence about human goodness is a powerful thing; it calls into question the assumptions we make about ourselves.”
The Washington Post
"Pattee takes the novel’s elements — the apocalyptic setting, the cutting social observation, the acerbic takes on marriage and motherhood — and shakes them into a potent cocktail."
New York Times
"Propulsive."
The New Yorker
About the Author
Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and fiction writer. She has written about climate change for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more.
In 2021, she coined the term “Climate Shadow” to describe an individual’s potential impact on climate change. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Idaho Review,New Orleans Review, Carve Magazine, Citron Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.
Her debut novelTILT is a national bestseller, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, named one of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, an NPR favorite fiction read of 2025, and named by NPR, Time, Vogue and Bustle as a best book of the year.
