MARIE BRENNER
Wednesday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m. at Douglass-Truth Branch, Seattle Public Library, 2300 E Yesler Way
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Co-presented by the Douglass Truth Branch and the Elliott Bay Book Company. Marie Brenner, writer-at-large for Vanity Fair, makes a special visit to Seattle this week to read from her much lauded memoir, Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux). This story of a "New York liberal" journalist's reconnection with her conservative, Wenatchee apple farmer brother after his diagnosis with terminal cancer (and her attempts to understand his actions at the end of his life) celebrates a complicated, yet loving relationship. "Extraordinary ... Ms. Brenner tracks the leitmotifs that run through their lives, the patterns-of sibling estrangements, of fresh starts and do-overs-that have stamped their family tree, and in doing so she has given us a beautifully observed and deeply affecting memoir, a book written with the unsparing eye of a journalist and the aching heart of a sister." - The New York Times. Ms. Brenner is also the author of Great Dames and The House of Dreams, and also "The Man Who Knew Too Much," the Vanity Fair tobacco industry exposé which was the basis for the movie, The Insider. Free admission (no tickets). The Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library is located at 2300 East Yesler Way. For more information, please see www.spl.org or call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.

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