on July 18 there will be a free “Meet the Author” event at the Lopez Library, and from 5 – 7 p.m. Rawles currently teaches 5th grade in the Seattle Public Schools.Īt 1 p.m. Rawles has participated in numerous programs as a teaching writer, including the 2001 Jack Straw Writers Program, which featured the work of Alie Wiegersma Smaalders. For many years, she worked for Seattle Arts and Lecture’s Writers in the Schools Program under the direction of Kip Robinson Greenthal. In addition to writing, Rawles has been teaching for 25 years. In her New York Times review, Helen Schulman called My Jim “as heart-wrenching a personal history as any recorded in American literature.” Rawles’ third novel, My Jim, tells the story of the wife and children of Mark Twain’s famous slave character from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Crawfish Dreams, the second in a series about the Broussards of Compton Avenue, was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. Love Like Gumbo won an American Book Award for its portrayal of a lesbian daughter’s struggle for independence from her warm but suffocating family. Rawles is the author of three critically-acclaimed and award-winning novels. And this is directly related to the Family Resource Center and the important work that they do.”
Ultimately I was dealing with a family and I was writing a love story, and I was looking at how people endure. Sadie and Jim are illiterate and their children and grandchildren have an opportunity for education, which is very important to them. “Sadie and Jim, the main characters in ‘My Jim’, become refugees after the war,” Rawles commented, “just like people are refugees today. Feel free to google Nancy and/or “My Jim,” to discover quite an array of activities as “My Jim” was selected for Seattle Reads 2009, sponsored by the Seattle Public Library. The story is a testament to the power of love and longing for freedom, and the survival of families and tradition even in the cruelest of times. My Jim (Three Rivers Press, 2005) re-imagines Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the slave’s perspective.
Novelist Nancy Rawles will speak Saturday July 18 at the Lopez Community Center.Īward-winning Seattle novelist, playwright, and educator, Nancy Rawles, will read from her highly-acclaimed book, “My Jim,” Saturday, July 18, at Lopez Center.
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