Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story

Theresa Griffin Kennedy

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Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story is a dark, sexually riveting and comical account of how some people come to grips with long repressed rage that can present itself later in life. Daisy Rose Butterfield has a name, a job and a life she seems to hate, and a trove of long-held secrets. Then one typical overcast Portland day a Prince Charming arrives to fix the toilet. Tab Hunter Blaine is everything Daisy has avoided all her life - he's older, he never attended college, and he works as a grade school custodian, a job he hates. He's also gorgeous and accommodating and acts as dynamite to Daisy's slow burning sexuality. But Tab brings his own baggage in the form of an estranged wife, Ruby and his girlfriend "on the side," Verona. This doesn't cause Daisy much concern, until Ruby and Verona get wind that Tab might be cheating on them. That's when the fun starts. Can sex heal you, even when it's all wrong? Can sexual obsession morph into love? Can you survive the sexual abuse you experienced as a child? And can you survive when your past, present and future collide one chilly, Talionic night in Portland?

Book Details

Publisher: Oregon Greystone Press
Publish Date: Oct 25th, 2021
Pages: 202
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.46in - 0.67lb
EAN: 9780578704586
Categories: • General

About the Author

Kennedy, Theresa Griffin: - Author Theresa Griffin Kennedy grew up in Northwest Portland during the challenging sixties and seventies. She came of age in the 1980s, during what is commonly referred to as The Greed Decade. Kennedy graduated from Portland State University with undergraduate and graduate degrees and was educated as a creative writing instructor. She spends her time writing literary fiction, specifically the genre of Domestic Noir, which she also refers to as hyper realism. Kennedy writes historical profiles, poetry, nonfiction essays and various articles and essays on current events and Portland politics. Kennedy works as an editor of other writers work and volunteers her time mentoring younger writers. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, writer and author Don DuPay, is a registered Democrat and an active supporter of the Oregon Assembly of Black Affairs. She is the author of three books, including the excellent short story collection entitled Burnside Field Lizard and Selected Stories, which was a finalist for a national book award in 2019. She is the editor of Oregon Greystone Press. Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story is her first novel.

Praise for this book

Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story, plunges the reader into a domestic noir fever dream. Theresa Griffin Kennedy takes us down the less celebrated paths of Portland through the eyes of a woman at a crossroads. At times hot, at times darkly somber, Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story explores untamable desire and the complex nature of passion.

--Suzy Vitello, author of The Moment Before

Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story by Theresa Griffin Kennedy is a raucous, steamy romp through the lesser known underbelly of hip Portland, Oregon. Fasten your seatbelts readers. You're in for a deliciously raw ride.

--Liz Scott, author of This Never Happened

Theresa Griffin Kennedy has a sharp eye and a brilliant flare for language. She captures the essence of Portland in her first novel, Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story. Her scenes and characters reek of Portland and weave a story, which like one of the main characters, seems to be without secrets but is in reality full of them.

--JD Chandler, author of Portland Rogues Gallery

A revenge story, Talionic Night in Portland: A Love Story, is the bizarre tale of two emotionally stunted adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Yes it's grim, it's dirty, it's unpleasant, but there's more here. Daisy and Tab are two deeply troubled characters who manage to use their outside beauty to mask the swirling mess inside. Their facades are perfect, their sex life sublime, but things are still so very wrong. Kennedy has a real affection for her two broken characters, and a quirky and humorous way of presenting these folks as confident, smart, and adult-like as they try urgently to understand themselves, each other, and the world. Not for the faint of heart - raunchy sex abounds here - but it serves as the language the two speak to each other. There is the slightest, most delicate chance for redemption here, and Kennedy is all in for this ride into, and out of, the desperate Portland Talionic Night.

Dianah Hughley, Powell's City of Books