JEWELL PARKER RHODES
Wednesday, October 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Douglass-Truth Branch, Seattle Public Library, 2300 E Yesler Way

Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The Douglass-Truth Branch of The Seattle Public Library, home to the City's special collection of African American history and literature, contains several books by award-winning writer Jewell Parker Rhodes. We are pleased to welcome, and co-host her here on this return visit to Seattle. Her new novel, Yellow Moon (Atria), is the second installment n the New Orleans trilogy, which began with Voodoo Season. Featuring the great-granddaughter of legendary voodoo priestess Marie Laveau as a modern-day physician, Yellow Moon finds Dr. Leaveau's New Orleans haunted by an African vampire and her emergency room filled with a mysterious series of murders. Jewell Parker Rhodes' other books include Porch Stories and Douglass' Women. The Douglass-Truth Branch of The Seattle Public Library is located at 2300 E. Yesler Way. 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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