ALEXANDRA FULLER
Wednesday, May 14 at 7 p.m. at Seattle Public Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue

Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Acclaimed writer Alexandra Fuller, who visited for both of her bestselling, African-set nonfiction books, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat—makes this welcome Seattle return for her first U.S.-set work, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant (Penguin Press). "The Legend of Colton H. Bryant is an elegant and elegiac portrait of a family in the clamp of the oil and gas boom in the Upper Green River Valley of Wyoming. It is a tough-edged story, tender at core, which only Alexandra Fuller could write because she understands the landscape of war in forgotten places. With an ear to the ground, she has listened to cowboys, roughnecks, mothers, fathers, wives, and children as their dreams are dashed due to a failed energy policy ... In the end, Fuller has written an elegy to American innocence through the sky-blue eyes of Colton H. Bryant. Who could have imagined that a 'western' is, in truth and depth, an anti-war tale that opens our eyes and breaks our hearts." – Terry Tempest Williams. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Seattle Public Central Library is located at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). Special $5 parking coupons for the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending. For more information, please see www.spl.org, or call (206) 386-4636, or Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.

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