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JEFF COOPERSMITH (D) District 1 (Puget Sound--north Seattle suburbs; Kitsap Peninsula...
JACK METCALF (R) District 2 (Puget Sound--Everett; Bellingham...
JENNIFER DUNN (R) District 8 (East Puget Sound--King County suburbs; Bellevue...
What does this particular city, all shoved up against Puget Sound, so far away from major cultural centers like New York City and Los Angeles, have that keeps people coming? Maybe there is no answer, and that's the answer. Like any frontier, Seattle allows new ideas and combinations. What may seem like an overzealous stretch towards sophistication--espresso in gas stations, at bus stops, in hair salons--is actually just old-fashioned American entrepreneurism in disguise. The same powers that created Budweiser and fast food have latched onto Vienna Roast and steamed milk. It just took a place like...
...forever," muses one character in David Guterson's luminous first novel. That is another way of saying there are no hiding places on a relatively small island: everyone is forced to be conscious of others and the need to be removed from others. In the San Juan Islands of Puget Sound in the early 1950s, both the residents of Japanese descent and the "American" communities are further divided and shadowed by their recent memories...