Elliott Bay Gift Certificates
Our unique handwritten
Gift Certificates are available in-store or charge-by-phone only! Call 1-800-962-5311
to order yours today!
The perfect gift—in any amount—with that personal touch of classic old world charm.
Stehekin author Ana Maria Spagna, whose 2004 book, Now Go Home, was a Seattle Times Best Book of the Year, is here today with a moving memoir that is at once a family story, and a chapter in one of the less-known stories of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey (University of Nebraska Press), recipient of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction prize, is the story of Ana Maria Spagna's late father's involvement in civil rights actions in Tallahasee in the 1950s. It's a story made more mysterious to her as her father said almost nothing about it and died, unexpectedly, when she was eleven. "Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus stands as a magnificent testament and tribute to the lives of many people—Ana Maria Spagna's parents, the many patriots of the civil rights movement, and the citizens of communities far and wide, large and small. Her surprising story renewed my awe in the interconnectedness of all of our lives and affirmed that the current championing of hope in our country is a hope deserving of all its fervor." - Kathleen Finneran.
