Third Tuesday Author: Trisha Pritikin

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Trisha Pritikin is the author of award-winning The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice, published in 2020 by University Press of Kansas (UPK) and released in Japanese by Akashi Shoten, Tokyo. Trisha was born and raised in Richland, where her father worked as a Hanford engineer. She has spent more than thirty years seeking accountability for cancers, birth defects, and radiogenic disease in those who, like her, grew up in the shadow of Hanford, the Nevada Test Site, and other Manhattan Project and Cold War atomic weapons production and testing sites throughout the US and globally. Her new novel, an atomic age hero’s journey entitled Then Came the Summer Snow, was recently released by Moonshine Cove Press. http://www.trishapritikin.com/

This program is supported by the Friends of the Lake Oswego Public Library and offered by Lake Oswego Public Library in cooperation with the Lake Theater & Café. Admission is free and no ticket is required (though food and drink purchase are encouraged to offset the cost to the Lake Theater). Doors open at 6:30pm, the presentation begins at 7:00pm.

The Lake Theater & Café is located at 106 North State Street in Lake Oswego. For more information, contact Alicia Yokoyama at ayokoyama@lakeoswego.city or 503-534-4228.