TERESE SVOBODA
Tuesday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m.

Another welcome Elliott Bay return is made this evening by Nebraska-born poet and prose writer Terese Svoboda. The author of Tin God, Treason, Mere Mortals, and more, she writes about family mystery and history, and a moving story in her book about her uncle, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan (Graywolf). A winner of Graywolf's Nonfiction Prize, this story of a story long kept secret—the author's uncle having witnessed abuse of prisoners under military guard, and how the revelations of the U.S. military abuses at Abu Ghraib helped occasion their disclosure—is written powerfully. "When Terese Svoboda agrees to write the war story of her uncle, who served in the American military police in Japan in the aftermath of World War II, she enters a nightmarish world of secrets and irretrievable truths. Lucid, self-knowing and artful, her memoir about getting the story will resonate for readers of every generation." - Alice Kaplan.

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