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Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. A writer who first read at age 25 with her debut book, Breath, Eyes, Memory, and has been an Elliott Bay and Seattle favorite in appearances here since, Edwidge Danticat returns with a powerful, timely new book that grew out of talks she gave for this year's Toni Morrison Lecture Series at Princeton. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Princeton University Press) is a beautiful book of eloquent writing, one that explores the place of the artist as immigrant—and immigrant as artist. She does this both generally and specifically—by taking readers to her home country of Haiti, including the Haiti shattered and devastated by a 7.0 earthquake on January 12 this year ("Our Guernica"). "This is the most powerful book I've read in years. Though delicate in its prose and civil in its tone, it hits like a freight train. It's a call to arms for all immigrants, all artists, all those who choose to bear witness, and all those who choose to listen. And though it describes great upheaval, tragedy, and injustice, it's full of humor, warmth, grace, and light." - Dave Eggers. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m. or in advance via www.brownpapertickets.com (1-800-838-3006). Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall Seattle at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org. (As part of this Seattle visit, Edwidge Danticat will also be appearing at Elliott Bay Book Company on Saturday, October 16 at 2 p.m.)
