KIM BARNES
Tuesday, October 7 at 6:30 p.m. at Montlake Branch, Seattle Public Library, 2401 - 24th Avenue E

Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A young physician and his pregnant wife leave their east coast home to make a new life in Fife, Idaho in acclaimed memoirist Kim Barnes' new novel, A Country Called Home (Knopf). "Kim Barnes' new novel is an exquisitely complex story, by turns pointed and poignant, about everything that matters: family, loyalty, religion, memory, love. With a master's skill, Barnes paints a world tinged with loss, adeptly depicting sentiments left unspoken, relationships stunted by the hard winds of grief and guilt, and singular moments full to brimming with natural beauty and grace. A Country Called Home is guided by a generous but hard-nosed sensibility and populated with appealingly flawed characters whose hopes, desires and self-contradictions are our own." – Brady Udall. Kim Barnes is also the author of In the Wilderness and Hungry for the World. The Montlake Branch of The Seattle Public Library is located at 2401 - 24th Avenue East. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636 or see www.spl.org.

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