Books published by University of Washington Press

From Lake Coeur dΓÇÖAlene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrainΓÇörural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading and gathering place for Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. With bountiful trout, accessible swimming holes, and challenging rapids, it is a recreational magnet for residents and tourists alike. The Spokane also bears the legacy of industrial growth and remains caught amid interests competing over natural resources.The contributors to this collection profile this living river through personal reflection, history, science, and poetry. They bring a keen environmental awareness of resource scarcity, climate change, and cultural survival tied to the riverΓÇÖs fate.

Rich with imagery and enlivened with a wry and witty sensibility, this title features poems that opens with a series of strong, spare, bitter sweet elegies to the author's parents and grandparents and to his own rural beginnings as he wrestles with the shifting roles of child and man, actor and observer.

This groundbreaking work in women's history explores the lives of Uzbek women, in their own voices and words, during the Soviet Hujum, the 1927 campaign in Soviet Central Asia to encourage mass unveiling as a path to social and intellectual "liberation."

Homebase is the coming of age story of Rainsford Chan in 1950s and 60s California. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at fifteen, he attempts to claim America as his homebase, and his personal history is interwoven with dreams, stories, and letters of his family's life in America. Moving through time and place, the story allows the reader to discover the past as Rainsford does, to see the world through his eyes, and to learn the truth about the Chinese American experience.hawn Wong is the author of the novel American Knees and director of the Honors Program at the University of Washington.

Michael Edson Robinson is professor of East Asian languages and cultures at Indiana University.