Newbery-Award winning author Kwame Alexander ("The Crossover") is one of the most beloved and honored writers, poets, educators, and publishers anywhere. He appears at Hugo House tonight for his eagerly anticipated new children’s book, The Door of No Return (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers). In it, an eleven-year-old boy finds out about life’s surprising twists and turns—towards death, towards a deeper knowing of life—in this extraordinary new novel. This event is presented by The Seattle Public Library, Elliott Bay Book Company and the Richard Hugo House.
“Alexander lures you in and endears you to Kofi and his world in a way that has you fully invested in time and place...His writing is at once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting, comforting and cutting. It hypnotizes and sobers, hypnotizes and sobers, in a rhythm as timeless as the talking drum that carries the tales of his people: Kum-PUM PUM! Kum-PUM PUM! I wish this book existed alongside Huckleberry Finn when I was in school. I am glad it exists now!” —Lupita Nyong’o.
