Event

The Elliott Bay Book Company presents: Andre Dubus III

ANDRE DUBUS III Thursday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle

Nearly a decade after his hugely acclaimed, bestselling, National Book Award-finalist novel, House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III makes this much-anticipated return for a sweeping new novel, The Garden of Last Days (W.W. Norton). An explosive narrative employs a Florida strip club as a tinderbox of tensions on the weekend before 9/11. In similar fashion to his previous bestseller, Dubus shows a profound empathy as he gets inside the heads of a number of characters, with coincidence, chance and a clash of cultures building to a shattering climax As fates become inexorably intertwined, Dubus does a masterful job of allowing the reader to understand, if not forgive, why each character does what he or she does. In the process, he explores the intricacies of faith and fate, love in its many dimensions (from maternal to sexual), the transactions through which men and women exert power over each other and the culture that shapes the characters and destinies of these individuals. Difficult to put down, impossible to forget. Kirkus Reviews. $5 tickets are available in advance at Elliott Bay or via www.brownpapertickets.com starting June 7. (This is not a Town Hall co-sponsored event.) Town Hall Seattle is located at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at 206.624.6600.