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4 days agoSophie Kinsella dies at 55; author of the best-selling Shopaholic' novels
Sophie Kinsella (Madeleine Wickham), bestselling creator of the Shopaholic novels, died at 55 after a glioblastoma diagnosis.
It wasn't yet another national media story telling Portland about itself, but rather a book review-of a novel, no less. Portlander Willy Vlautin's The Night Always Comes rendered the city's cost-of-living crisis through one woman's torment. Somehow, the book knit a lifelike portrait of systemic injustice into a quick, violent crime drama that careens through a single, momentous night-escorts, guns, cocaine, and a stolen Mercedes-without selling out its characters or its city.