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Start: 4:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Sponsored by the CAPITOL HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. As part of setting up shop in our new home, we are delighted and grateful to be welcomed, along with our new, next-door neighbor Everyday Music, to the block and neighborhood. The Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, along with many of our new neighbors (cited below), is staging these welcoming festivities. For this round of celebratory doing, it's expected our block of Tenth Avenue (between Pike and Pine) will be closed off in Block Partty manner, and that there will be some remark-making by City officials and neighbors, music (performed by the Seattle band LET'S GET LOST), food, and libations. As more develops with this, we will continue to try and get updates posted on our website. Of course, we also look forward to getting to put books in people's hands that day—and to be hosting returning author Anchee Min (at 7:30 the evening of the block party). It's all getting closer now.
Special thanks to many individuals, the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce and the following for making this celebration possible: Caffe Vita, Cal Anderson Park Alliance, Capitol Hill Housing, CK Graphics, Clean Scapes, Creature, Cupcake Royale, Havana, Hedges Wine Cellar, Hunters Capital, Gary Manuel Aveda Institute, Molly Moons Ice Cream, Neumos, New Belgium, NuBe Green, Odd Fellow Building, Odd Fellows Cafe, Pike Street Fish Fry, Quinn's, and Via Tribunali.
-from all of us at Elliott Bay Book Company & Elliott Bay Café
Start: 7:30 pm
As this goes to press, we believe that Anchee Min's reading for her new novel, Pearl of China (Bloomsbury USA), will be the very first in our new Capitol Hill home. Though it is a matter of how the scheduling worked out more than anything, it is also apt that she is a first author to read here as she has read at Elliott Bay for each of her books. Anchee Min's debut book, the 1994 memoir Red Azalea, is still a reader favorite. Red Azalea was followed by another autobiographical work, Katherine, and then the novels Becoming Madame Mao, Wild Ginger, Empress Orchid, and The Last Empress. Pearl of China begins in the late 19th-century, in the southern Chinese town of Ching-kiang, and from there tells the story of a young girl, the daughter of fervent Christian missionaries, who would grow up to be Nobel Prize-winning novelist Pearl S. Buck. Her story is linked with that of a young village girl. "[Anchee] Min, a prime example of an indomitable Chinese woman, has made it her mission to reveal the truth about the lives of women in China, including Madame Mao, Empress Tzu Hsi, and now Buck ... Ardently detailed, dramatic, and encompassing, Min's fresh and penetrating interpretation of Pearl S. Buck's extraordinary life delivers profound psychological, spiritual, and historical insights within an unforgettable cross-cultural story of a quest for veracity, compassion, and justice." – Booklist.
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