Events
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Start: 2:00 pm
This quiet afternoon, we'll sojourn to the northern part of Capitol Hill to hear Corvallis writer Kathleen Dean Moore speak about loss, sustenance, and the transformative power of nature. Frog songs, garter snake gatherings, and the pleasures of making and eating migas are just some of the inspirations for the essays in her new book, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature (Trumpeter/Shambhala). "Wild Comfort is a richly poetic book, tipsy with life, and Moore is a wonderful guide to the wilderness and our own wildness." – Diane Ackerman. Trinity Lutheran Church is at 1200 Tenth Avenue East (at Highland), quite near Volunteer Park.
Start: 3:00 pm
Co-presented with THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Bobby, a multiracial Puerto Rican and black teenager, struggles with his identity, his sexuality, and the deaths of of his and older brother in Peter Bacho's new young adult novel, Leaving Yesler (Pleasure Boat Studio). Set in Seattle in 1968 in Seattle's iconic Yesler Terrace Housing Project, Chinatown and the South End, Leaving Yesler is also an insightful portrait of Seattle's Filipino American community. "Peter Bacho doesn't let readers forget what it meant in that in-between time just before we became what and who we are today, and how a young man learns compassion and humanity." – Shawn Wong. Peter Bacho's previous books include Dark Blue Suit and Boxing in Black and White. Free admission. The Beacon Hill Branch of The Seattle Public Library is at 2821 Beacon Avenue South. For more information, please see www.spl.org.
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