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Back in her Seattle home town, as she teaches at the University of California, Riverside, is Megan Asaka, who discussed her timely, extraordinary book, Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (University of Washington Press), at Elliott Bay in September, now back for this special Seattle Public Library program, where she’ll be in conversation with Seattle Times editor and columnist Naomi Ishisaka. This is a history of Seattle unlike any other we’ve encountered. Tracking from the beginning of Seattle’s urban beginnings in the mid-19th century on up to the beginning of World War II, this book looks at who really built and made Seattle, where they came from, what was done to them or about them by the power structures in place.