Event

Sherman Alexie speaks at Town Hall Seattle

SHERMAN ALEXIE Tuesday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle

Presented by THE ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY. Six months after rocking the house with Face, a new book of poems, Sherman Alexie is back onstage and on the page with an eagerly awaited new book of stories, War Dances (Grove Press). This first book of prose after his National Book Award-winning young-adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, is as wonderfully all over the place as any night with Sherman Alexie can be with some heart truth shining through at the core. From National Book Award-winner Alexie comes a new collection of stories, poems, question and answer sequences, and hybrids of all three and beyond. In a penetrating voice that mixes humor with anger, Alexie pointedly asks, If it is true that children pay for the sins of their fathers, then is I also true that fathers pay for the sins of their children? Many of the stories revolve around the complexities of fatherhood Alexie unfurls highly expressive language this is a spiritedly provocative array of tragic comedies. Publishers Weekly. $5 tickets are available at Elliott Bay, via www.brownpapertickets, and 1.800.838.3006 starting September 5. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at 206.624.6600.