Seattle Reads 'The Submission'Seattle Reads 'The Submission'

The Washington Center for the Book at The Seattle Public Library invites everyone to take part in Seattle Reads "The Submission," a project designed to deepen engagement in literature through reading and discussion. When a jury chooses a walled garden as the design for a ground zero memorial, they discover that its creator is a young Muslim American architect. They know their selection will unleash a firestorm of controversy and they are proven right. In the conflicted response of the jury and the public, Amy Waldman's acclaimed debut novel asks hard questions about the American values of tolerance, diversity, and community.