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Stealing Home Talk and Book Signing
Thursday, January 30th, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Meet local Tukwila resident, Sharon Hashimoto, winner of the 2022 Washington State Book Awards for Poetry. She will share excerpts from her new collection of short stories, Stealing Home.
In her stunning debut short story collection, Sharon depicts the intergenerational impact of war and internment on Japanese American families, as they navigate loss, secrecy and pain amidst a backdrop of forced removal, confinement and cultural struggle.
Sharon will be interviewed by the poet, Michael Spence.
About Stealing Home
A family in a Wyoming camp copes with gossip amid the losses caused by their sudden removal and confinement. A World War II veteran reluctantly tells his granddaughter about his time overseas. A young boy acts as a translator between his mother and her doctor, trying and failing to convey the source of her pain. In this stunning debut short story collection, Sharon Hashimoto traces the costs of war and internment as felt across generations of Japanese Americans. Her title, Stealing Home, is both an allusion to an American pastime and a searing condemnation of its history of forced internment.
About the Author:
Sharon Hashimoto’s first poetry book, The Crane Wife, was co-winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize in 2003 and reprinted by Red Hen Press in 2021. That same year, her second collection of poetry, More American, won the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. More American went on to win the 2022 Washington State Book Award in poetry. Hashimoto’s short story collection, Stealing Home was published by Grid Books in September, 2024.
About the Interviewer:
Michael Spence served a hitch in the navy then drove public-transit buses for Metro for thirty years. His poems have appeared lately in Arkansas Review, Catamaran, The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, and Tampa Review. His latest book, Umbilical, won The New Criterion Poetry Prize.