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The book: Pauls Toutonghi's novel Red Weather.

This month we subject Pauls Toutonghi’s young adult novel Red Weather to the awesome critical power that is Seattlest. The book has nothing to do with Seattle, but Toutonghi allegedly spent some formative years here and he’s old friends with our most frequent contributor, so what the hell? We’re trying out a new “point/counterpoint” format, with contributors Matt Silvie and James Callan facing off.

This month Seattlest Book Club is reading Seattle-born and -raised Pauls Toutonghi's debut novel Red Weather, just out in paperback from Random House. You'll get a discount if you buy it at Bailey-Coy or Santoro's.

THIS MONTH we've been talking about Seattle author Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time. We went over the big plow-up of the prairie, the hard-scrabble living, and Egan's decision to tell the story novelistically, rather than textbookily.

When we asked which Mariner hit the game winning home run on Opening Day in 1986 we felt we had come up with a question that would stump the room. However, when we saw that nearly half teams correctly answered Jim Presley we realized that we weren't the only ones to have their childhood ruined by the boys in blue and yellow.

Pauls Toutonghi, a product of the Seattle Public School system who now lives in Brooklyn, is in town to publicize his first novel, Red Weather. Random House is the publisher--and, as our friend Jason McDonald says, don't be fooled by the name--they don't publish just anything.