March 21 Entertainment Update

The Parson Red Heads play CEBU Lounge on March 24

Friedman discusses ‘Rescuer’s Path’ April 1

Local Gorge author Paula Friedman will be discussing her new book, “The Rescuer's Path,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 1, in the Hood River County Library community room. “The Rescuer's Path” tells of Malca, a Holocaust survivor’s daughter who, in 1971, rides a horse into a wooded park and finds the wounded fugitive Gavin Hareen, a peace activist and Arab-American who is the prime suspect in the deadly bombing of an army truck. Raised on her family's stories of Holocaust rescue, compassionate and empathetic Malca finds the courage to aid the wounded stranger and, bit by bit, the two come to trust, befriend, and eventually love each other. As police close in, Malca flees with Gavin and is thrown into a dangerous struggle against injustice, culminating in her pregnancy and — 30 years later, in the shadow of 9/11 — an unexpected reunion with the couple’s now-grown birth daughter. Paula Friedman, an author and freelance book editor who lives in Mount Hood-Parkdale, was formerly public relations director for the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, Calif.