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Start: 6:30 pm
Co-presented with THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. From the University of Washington Press comes an excellent new book for field use, or armchair perusing, author Judy Bentley's Hiking Washington's History. Over forty trails, from short day hikes to multi-day traverses are noted and charted in this handsome, informative volume. "Judy Bentley has gathered a selection of favorite hikes from all over the state, then folded in just the right amount of historical context to make each of the treks pulsate through time." - Jack Nisbet. Free admission is on a first-come, first serve basis. Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.
Start: 7:00 pm
Readers who were moved, like us, by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's debut novel of a decade ago, Why She Left Us, will be glad to know that the wait for new work from this talented Brooklyn-based writer is finally over. Her memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning (Feminist Press), begins with a solo trip to research the memories of atomic bomb survivors and gradually becomes a haunting meditation on motherhood, identity, memory, and history. "This searing and redemptive memoir is an explosive account of motherhood reconstructed. Pulling from the wreckage of two wars, as well as the loss of her own mother to Alzheimer's, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto recasts her identity as a mother and a daughter, and finds a truer connection to her family." - Ayelet Waldman.
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