The Printed Garden
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BOOK SIGNING & DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR
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SIGNED &
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THE SUM OF
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Brittany Shepler's wonderful piece of sidewalk art featuring the original dust jacket artwork for a book we share an affinity for: T. J. Klune's Under the Whispering Door. If you enjoy light fantasy that revolves around found family, you'd enjoy both this book and his previous work, The House on the Cerulean Sea, both of which we keep in stock!
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A DAY OF SIDEWALK ART!SATURDAY, MAY 21ST - ALL DAYThese four extremely talented chalk artists created some terrific book related artwork in front of The Printed Garden last Saturday. Check them out the next time you drop by. More artwork by these four artists can be found on the following Instagram accounts!
Camille Grimshaw - @grimshawgirlschalkart Nicole Kleinman - @thechalkprincess Sarah Gardiner - No social media Brittany Shepler - @bretagne.mae A big THANK YOU to Camille, Nicole, Sarah, and Brittany! |
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ONE OF OUR FAVORITES!
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Jonathan Evison's Small World will likely be one of the best books you'll read in 2022! I've been reading Evison's books for about ten years and Small World is his finest work to date. In his most refined prose and a Dickensian cast of characters, Evison has produced what is, in ever sense of the expression his "Great American Novel." Don't miss this one! - Aaron
From Kirkus Reviews: A train accident reveals the connections among a host of people across race, class, history, and the country in this ambitious epic. Evison’s seventh novel opens by giving away the climax: Walter, a train operator working his final run for Amtrak, is at the center of a wreck on the way to Seattle. But despite making the worlds-in-collision setup clear early, Evison has still crafted a suspenseful novel, as he shuttles between the train’s riders in 2019 and their forebears in the 1850s. Walter is a descendent of Nora and Finn, Irish twins orphaned in Chicago. Malik, a rising high school basketball star, is a descendent of George, an escaped slave. Jenny, a hard-charging corporate fixer (she supervised Amtrak buyouts that, it’s implied, led to the crash), descends from Wu Chen, a Chinese immigrant who parlayed a small stash of gold into a thriving business. And Laila, escaping her abusive husband, is descended from Luyu, a Miwok woman who’s absorbed White people's condescension or brutality. Bouncing among the characters in brief chapters, Evison gives the story a sprightly, page-turner feel despite the sizable cast he’s assembled. And the story thrives because his eye for the particulars of each character’s life is so sharp: Finn’s work on farms and railroads, Laila’s anxiety over escaping her husband, Malik’s mother’s desperate efforts to make ends meet for her son’s sake. So when their lives do wind up intersecting on the train, Evison’s novel feels less like we’re-all-connected sentimentality than a compassionate vision of a pluralistic country that ought to dignify everybody. Though politics aren’t explicit in the novel, it’s plainly a response to an era that’s created dividing lines across the country. Without being simplistic or wearing rose-colored glasses, Evison suggests a fresh way of recognizing our relationships without melting-pot clichés. A bighearted, widescreen American tale. |
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RUSSIAN WRITERS
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THE BIRTH OF THE NOVEL
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TERRIFIC SCIENCE FICTIONA MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE
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UTAH WRITERS
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SOMETHING SCARY
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GARY PAULSEN
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JOAN DIDION
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BELL HOOKS
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THE PRINTED GARDEN STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH
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TONI MORRISON- BELOVED
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LANGSTON HUGHES- THE BIG SEA
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Looking for a quiet, comfortable meeting space for your book club? There might be distractions at home, but there aren't any in this room! Let us do the work so you can enjoy your time together. Order and purchase your selections through our store and use our Reading Room, with our compliments! We'll keep things organized so your members can pick up the following month's books at the current month's meeting, and save you a special trip to pick it up later in the month!
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Looking for an inexpensive night out of the house? Meet a couple friends at The Printed Garden for a friendly (or not-so-friendly) board game, and enjoy one of our complimentary hot beverages. We also have chess, checkers, Monopoly, Jenga, and a couple decks of cards - or feel free to pack your own game in if you'd like! If you've come by yourself to study, just let us know and we'll turn the music down or off
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