Naseem Rakha’s name and voice are familiar to many KLCC listeners. She was KLCC’s Capitol Correspondent from 1995 to 2003. Last year, her first novel, “The Crying Tree” was published. Rakha will be reading from the book tonight at the University of Oregon Knight Library. “The Crying Tree” won the 2009 Northwest Booksellers Award for fiction. It tells the story of a family who experience the tragic death of their teen aged son. The mother, after years of wanting revenge for her son’s death, eventually forgives her son’s killer, who is sentenced to death.

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