DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ at Douglass-Truth Library |
Co-presented with the CENTRAL DISTRICT FORUM FOR ARTS & IDEAS and THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Dolen Perkins-Valdez' historically-set debut novel, Wench (Harper Amistad) is one of those books we've most wanted to share with readers this season. The chronicle of four slave women who are also their masters' mistresses, Wench is set in a popular Ohio resort where slaveholders (and mistresses) gather during the summer. Witness to the growing abolition movement with this Free State, these women must each decide whether to run or stay. Dolen Perkins-Valdez, who is bicoastally based in both Seattle and the Washington known as D.C., based this novel on research into the period and the actual Xenia, Ohio resort where this story is set. "Heart-wrenching, intriguing, original, and suspenseful, this novel showcases Perkins-Valdez' ability to bring the unfortunate past to life." - Publishers Weekly. Free admission. The Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library is at 2300 East Yesler. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, or see www.cdforum.org.
- Street:
- Douglass-Truth Library
- Additional:
- 2300 E. Yesler
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98122
- Country:
- United States
