Local author
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Local author. Annotations from Kirkus Reviews, unless otherwise attributed.
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One Two Three
In a town about to be ravaged for a second time by an evil chemical company, teenage triplets fight the power.
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Essential Labor
A celebration of caregiving.Garbes, a Filipina who describes herself as “a woman of color, a writer, and a mother,” melds memoir with social, political, and cultural critique to offer a thoughtful analysis of the social and personal complexities of mothering.
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Readying to Rise
Social justice is an ideal. It's not a reality. And while there are moments that make it feel tantalizingly close, the moment that follows often punts it right back to the far distance. Growing up black in south Seattle, journalist and essayist Marcus Harrison Green has a keen sense of exactly where and how things break down. From his own experience in the classroom and at the hands of police to his fierce dissection of the racism baked into media and journalism, Green makes poetry of the clarity that comes after long reflection. (Publisher)
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The Final Case
A bestselling author explores art, justice, and grief as he questions what makes a story true.
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The Great Alone
In 1974, a troubled Vietnam vet inherits a house from a fallen comrade and moves his family to Alaska.
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Murder at the Mission
Revisionist account of the once-well-known 1847 Whitman Massacre, an event that helped catalyze the American annexation of Oregon and Washington.
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The Laughter
Jha ’s new novel examines the political culture of a college in Seattle.
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Night Hawks
A modern master's latest array of glittering tales offers the pleasures and solace of storytelling.
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The Eightfold Path
Barnes (Lion’s Blood) and Johnson (Middle Passage) team up with artist Moss (The Experiment Known as Rose Marie Hernandez Willamson) for a story collection with cosmic ambitions hampered by some earthly flaws. (Publishers Weekly)
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Heart Radical
Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother’s birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles—seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend, artist, and daughter—and continually asks herself: Why am I called to make this journey? (Publisher)
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