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DESCRIPTION:Join us at Mrs. Dalloway's on Saturday, June 6 at 7:00 PM when COLE NICOLE 
 LEFAVOUR will be at the store to share their new book "In the Arms of 
 Mountains: A Memoir of Land, Love, and Queer Resistance in Red America". 
 Cole will be joined in conversation by SOPHIA RADAY and will sign copies of 
 their book after the presentation.\n\nThis is the story rural America 
 deserves to tell—and that the rest of the country needs to hear. Follow 
 LeFavour’s journey from their 2-mile walk to the school bus along a dirt 
 road to their monumental election as Idaho’s first openly queer state 
 senator. Cole recounts anti-apartheid protests at Berkeley, the solitary 
 life of a fire lookout, and the gravitational pull of unexpected romance 
 and loss. In the Arms of Mountains is a memoir with dirt under its nails 
 and heart on its sleeve. It shatters the carefully constructed 
 “monolithic heartland” myth and rewrites Hillbilly Elegy’s bleak 
 epitaph.\n\nCOLE NICOLE LEFAVOUR is an activist, award-winning journalist, 
 and writer whose stories and essays have appeared in The North American 
 Review, Idaho Wilderness Considered, Sawtooth-White Cloud, among others. In 
 2004, LeFavour became the first openly LGBTQ+ member of the Idaho 
 Legislature, elected four times, serving as an Idaho State Senator and 
 eventually leading hundreds of people in acts of civil disobedience at the 
 State Capitol. Cole lives in rural Idaho with their spouse, Carol, where 
 the two raise vegetables and use their pickup to extract neighbors of all 
 political persuasions from of ditches in winter.\n\nSOPHIA RADAY lives in 
 Berkeley, with her retired soldier/police officer husband, a bipartisan 
 dog, and assorted firearms. Like LeFavour, Raday was arrested in the late 
 80s for civil disobedience in protest of South African Apartheid, and in 
 various other causes. Her book, "Love in Condition Yellow: a Memoir of an 
 Unlikely Marriage", was also published by Beacon Press. Currently Sophia is 
 working on a mystery about a secret society of women gathering compromising 
 information on powerful men to hold them accountable for sexual assault.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/05/31/18886486.php
SUMMARY:Author Cole Nicole LeFavour to discuss their new memoir IN THE ARMS OF MOUNTAINS
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore\n2904 College Ave\nBerkeley, CA 94705
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/05/31/18886486.php
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