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Start: 6:30 pm
Each month, the Elliott Bay Book Club reads and discusses the best in contemporary fiction with the occasional classic thrown in for good measure. Our March selection is The Journey of Little Gandhi by Elias Khoury. A many-layered story of Little Gandhi, or Abd al-Karim, a shoe shine in a city fractured by war. Shot down in the street, Gandhi's story is recounted by an aging and garrulous prostitute named Alice. Ingeniously embedding stories within stories, Little Gandhi becomes the story of a city, Beirut, in the grip of civil war. Laila Lalami in the Los Angeles Times says, "Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."
Start: 7:00 pm
Do using drought-tolerant plants reduce water consumption? Does aerobically brewed compost tea suppress disease? Urban horticulturalist Linda Chalker-Scott discusses common gardening practices, drawing from science to separate the stereotypes from helpful practices, all encompassed in her new book, The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (University of Washington Press). "Linda Chalker-Scott is a scientist with a mission—evidence-based gardening. Happily she is also the most interesting, entertaining, knowledgeable, and useful garden writer I've come across. Home gardeners will learn practices that are more effective, safer, and ... cheaper." - Constance Casey.
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