![]() ![]() Each fruit is also the occasion for a lyric essay and recipe. The book that follows is a compendium, an alphabetical rundown of 26 mostly counterintuitive fruits, from aronia to zucchini (for W we get wheat instead of watermelon). Here, fruit is a pain-but, as pains go, a pretty good one. “In this book, fruit is not the smooth-skinned, bright-hued, waxed and edible ovary of the grocery store,” Spokane’s Kate Lebo writes at the start her new essay collection. The Book of Difficult Fruit by Kate Lebo (2021) Armbruster’s account is swift, witty, and comprehensive. Far less known about is the region’s other music-from Native traditions to jazz to folk to symphonic brilliance. Most of us know about this city’s guitar rock bona fides. If you’re to read only one book on Seattle music, let it be this. ![]()
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