Tomorrow is the Big Day!

Have you chosen your book? Picked out your PJ's? Thought about your donation to Fishtrap? Your evening at home and your gift, no matter how small, helps us bring great writing and clear thinking about the West to life in many ways. Here are just a few of the programs YOU help us provide: The Big Read, the Local Lecture Series, The Imnaha Writer's Retreat, the Fishtrap Fellowship Program and, of course, the Summer Fishtrap
Writer's Workshops and Gathering.

If you haven't chosen your date yet, here are a few more recommendations.

First, from Fishtrap's Executive Director, Ann Powers:

I just finished reading The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea: A vibrant, magical book. Rich with Mexican politics, history, and mysticism; compelling characters and a riveting plot. Love it!

I've just begun the second book in Ursula Le Guin's Earth Sea series. Pulls you right in!

Board Member Pam Slinker adds:

At Ben's suggestion, I read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, who is a presenter at Summer Fishtrap 2012 in July. It is a beautifully written novel, set in Seattle during WWII and the present (or at least in the 1980s).It is about love, family relationships, cultural and historical differences and similarities. I couldn't put it down, and on a recent trip to Seattle, found myself looking for Chinatown and any remnants of the Japanese who raised their families, worked, went to school and lived there 60 or more years ago. It also continued the theme of this year's Big Read. I am now reading Luis Alberto Urrea's The Hummingbird's Daughter, another presenter at Fishtrap!