MAAZA MENGISTE at the Northwest African American Museum |
Co-presented with the Northwest African American Museum. Taking place at the Northwest African American Museum, which has its wonderful exhibit on Ethiopians in the Northwest, "East by Northwest," on display, is this reading by Addis Ababa-born debut novelist Maaza Mengiste. Beneath the Lion's Gaze (W.W. Norton) is a powerful novel set in motion by Ethiopia's wrenching 1974 revolution. " ... Beneath the Lion's Gaze is an extraordinary novel, which ... tells stories nobody can want to hear, in such a way that we cannot stop listening. Although set more than thirty years ago, Mengiste's novel is timely and vital: Its illumination of a world unfamiliar to most Americans shows us how individuals will fight to retain their humanity in the face of atrocity." - Claire Messud, Bookforum. "With words that make 'a faint, tender bruise' on the page, and a compassionate imagination that transforms everything it touches on, Maaza Mengiste delivers an important story from a part of Africa too long silent in the World Republic of Letters." - Chris Abani. Free admission. The Northwest African American Museum (www.naamnw.org) is at 2300 South Massachusetts Street in Seattle's Rainier Valley.
Also, following at 9 p.m.: Debut Lit, a national organization (www.debutlit.com) dedicated to promoting new authors, hosts a gathering with Maaza Mengiste at Hidmo (www.hidmo.org), the popular Eritrean café/club at 2000 South Jackson (quite near the reading at NAAM).
- Street:
- The Northwest African American Museum
- Additional:
- 2300 S Massachusetts St
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98144
- Country:
- United States
