Edmonds Bookshop Presents: Tamiko Nimura discussing "A Place for What We Lose"
Join author Tamiko Nimura at Edmonds Bookshop during Art Walk Edmonds for a discussion of her book, A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter's Return to Tule Lake.
In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her Japanese American family’s wartime history at Tule Lake. The typewritten pages of her father’s unpublished memoir—written decades earlier about his childhood behind barbed wire—spark a reckoning with the long shadow of parental loss and the unresolved legacy of incarceration.
Following an innovative structure, Nimura interlaces her father’s vivid recollections with her own: scenes of camp life, family separation, and resistance alongside her present-day journey as a mother, writer, and descendant. Joining a community pilgrimage to Tule Lake transforms inherited pain into collective remembrance.
With honesty and lyrical precision, Nimura shows how intergenerational trauma and silence are transmitted, and how confronting them can foster healing. Part memoir,…
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Thursday, August 20, 2026, 7:00 PM.
Edmonds Bookshop.
Village Books Presents: Paul de Barros, author of "Jackson Street After Hours "
Explore Seattle's legendary jazz scene with critic Paul de Barros, from Ray Charles to Quincy Jones and beyond!
De Barros brings Seattle’s historic jazz scene to life in Jackson Street After Hours. From 1912 to 1961, Jackson Street pulsated around the clock with the lively rhythms, energetic harmonies, and inimitable melodies of jazz. This creative atmosphere launched the careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, and Ernestine Anderson, as well as Bumps Blackwell, who produced Little Richard’s first hit records. Some of the era’s great touring musicians played the city as well, including Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker, and many of them sat in on the music-making sessions that took place in the after-hours spots and bottle clubs.
Drawing on oral histories and interviews with more than eighty musicians as well as Black newspapers and archival sources, de Barros reconstructs a world of nightclubs, speakeasies, and jam sessions. Fully updated throughout, this second edition features…
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Friday, October 16, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Village Books.
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