12:00 PM – Nancy Rawles: My Jim
Northgate Community Center
The Washington Center for the Book at The Seattle Public Library invites everyone to take part in Seattle Reads My Jim, a project designed to foster reading and discussion of works by authors of diverse cultures and ethnicities. Nancy Rawles’ novel re-imagines Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the slave’s perspective.
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6:30 PM – Literary Fiction I: Student Readings
UW Bookstore, U-District
This year’s students of Scott Driscoll’s UW Extension Literary Fiction class will read selections from their work.
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6:30 PM – Stephanie Kallos: Sing Them Home
SPL Ballard Branch
Everyone in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician’s wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope’s three young children, the stability of life with their distant, preoccupied father, and with Viney, their mother’s spitfire best friend, is no match for their mother’s absence. Larken, the eldest, is an art history professor who seeks in food an answer to a less tangible hunger; Gaelan, the only son, is a telegenic weatherman who devotes his life to predicting the unpredictable and whose profession, and all too much more, depend on his sculpted frame and ready smile; and Bonnie, the baby of the family is a self-proclaimed archivist who combs the roadsides for clues to her mother’s legacy, and permission to move on. When, decades after their mother’s disappearance, they are summoned home after their father’s sudden death, they are forced to revisit the childhood tragedy at the center of their lives.
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7:00 PM – Nancy Rawles: My Jim
SPL Columbia Branch
The Washington Center for the Book at The Seattle Public Library invites everyone to take part in Seattle Reads My Jim, a project designed to foster reading and discussion of works by authors of diverse cultures and ethnicities. Nancy Rawles’ novel re-imagines Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the slave’s perspective.
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7:30 PM – Miranda Weiss: Tide, Feather, Snow
Barnes & Noble, University Village
A captivating memoir of life in Alaska.
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7:30 PM – Reif Larsen: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Two predictions about The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet: readers are going to love it as much as I did, and few if any will have experienced anything like it. I’m flabbergasted by Reif Larsen’s talent, and I was warmed by his generosity. Here is a book that does the impossible: it combines Mark Twain, Thomas Pynchon, and Little Miss Sunshine. Good novels entertain; great ones come as a gift to the readers who are lucky enough to find them. This book is a treasure.” – Stephen King
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