ELLIOTT BAY GLOBAL ISSUES & ETHICS BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, May 13 at 6:30 p.m.

Our Global Issues & Ethics Book Group is devoted to discussing books that cover the most relevant topics of our everyday lives. William T. Vollmann visited towns and cities around the world and asked one basic question: "Why are you poor?" His book, Poor People explores the fundamental questions of poverty by engaging the very people who are abjectly poor. The San Francisco Chronicle says of Vollmann and his book, "Few writing today can handle writing about the underclasses of the world like Vollmann...a writer who writes not only beautifully but also responsibly and morally." The Seattle Times said, "Vollmann has written a book of enormous power—one that honors the magnitude of each story it records and allows them to say in their own words why life has laid them so low."

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