DAVID MURA
Wednesday, October 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Beacon Hill Branch, Seattle Public Library, 2821 Beacon Avenue S

Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. David Mura, known for his revelatory essays on race and sexuality, his poetry and his work as an acclaimed performance artist and teacher, turns to fiction to tell the story of a Japanese American family haunted by a series of tragic deaths and disappearances. He makes this long-awaited return visit to Seattle to read from Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (Coffee House). " ... Poet Mura manages rather spectacularly to bring a light touch to his intense first novel, a crepuscular tale of one man's struggle to decipher his poisonous legacy of sorrow, shame, and prejudice; refuse the narcotic of forgetting; and pursue the bracing clarity of truth and remembrance." – Booklist. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve, space-available basis. The Beacon Hill Branch of the Seattle Public Library is located at 2821 Beacon Avenue S. 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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