Pauls Toutonghi

Biography

Pauls Toutonghi is the author Red Weather (Shaye Areheart Books/Crown, 2006). He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches at Lewis and Clark College and is at work on his second novel for Shaye Areheart Books/Crown.

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ESSAYS / Winter 2009

9 Sencu Iela

By Pauls Toutonghi

On the night of August 3, 1944—in the hot crickety darkness of Riga, Latvia—my grandparents did two remarkable things. After midnight, while his children were sleeping, my grandfather—Harijs Mindenbergs—sat down at the kitchen table and...