Alex Poppe
June 10 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Pre-Order Breakfast Wine
Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome back Alex Poppe for a free, in-store event on Tuesday, June 10 to celebrate her new book, Breakfast Wine. This event will take place in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer Street in the Tulsa Arts District.
Blending memoir, personal essay, local topography, and culture, Breakfast Wine is a frank, human story of pursuing an unconventional life and finding a way home.
Breakfast Wine will be published by Apprentice House on June 10, 2025. You can purchase a copy at Magic City Books or online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/breakfast-wine-alex-poppe/3252
About Breakfast Wine
Dress-obsessed and directionless, 44-year-old Alex Poppe can’t get her life together. A business analyst, turned actor, turned teacher, she works a dead-end marketing job under a mammary gland-fixated man and still waits tables to make ends meet. A chance encounter with an acclaimed journalist encourages her to accept a teaching position in northern Iraq, which charms with a heart and a fist.
Dining with a pistol-packing hitman, being thrown off the back of a truck during a humanitarian aid drop, and unknowingly working alongside one of Sweden’s most notorious sex offenders are colored-glass pieces of information that fall together in a turn, educating Alex in Kurdish culture and politics beyond what her students teach her in the classroom and what she experiences as a Western woman living in the Middle East. There are earthquakes and building fires and a small war juxtaposed against the senseless, drug-fueled death of a good friend and the bone chilling aftermath of the security police’s investigation. Alex navigates teaching online during the COVID lockdown with the help of WhatsApp before her father’s unexpected passing pushes her to return to the US.
About the Author
Having worked in conflict zones such as Iraq, the West Bank, and Ukraine, Alex Poppe writes about fierce and funny women rebuilding their lives in the wake of violence. She is the award-winning author of four works of literary fiction—Jinwar and Other Stories (2023), Duende, a novella (2023), Moxie, a novel (2019), and Girl World: Stories (2017). In 2021, Alex was an artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, where Breakfast Wine began. Currently,
she works in international development, awed by place, people, and their stories. You can visit her website to learn more: www.alexpoppe.com
