Elliott Bay Gift Certificates
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The perfect gift—in any amount—with that personal touch of classic old world charm.
Special midday at Elliott Bay reading. Originally published as Locke 1928 by a small California press—a story somewhat akin to Karl Marlantes and Matterhorn—Shawna Yang Ryan's debut novel, Water Ghosts (new in paper, Penguin) is a brilliant tale of three young Chinese immigrant women who take on life and some larger than life force in the Sacramento delta eighty years ago. "A beautiful debut, Water Ghosts opens up a page in history that sometimes is forgotten by both cultures that once coexisted in Locke, a Sacramento Chinese farming town. By mapping out the familiar and the strange territories of human passion and retelling the old myths, Shawna yang Ryan tells a story that, in the end, is about how America was truly made." – Yiyun Li. "Artfully woven, exquisitely modulated, walking a master's line between ancient, Chinese myth and the grit of immigrant life in the Sacramento delta, Water Ghosts tells the unforgettable story of a town brought to its knees by loneliness and longing. Complicated, compassionate, haunting, Shawna Yang Ryan's novel feels more like tapestry than words on paper, her prose less like sentences and more like song." – Pam Houston.
