Leaving Yesler
by Peter Bacho
Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
New York, NY
©2010

LEAVING YESLER is Peter Bacho’s first coming-of-age novel, a remarkable story filled with tension and magical realism. Foreword Magazine’s Patty Comeau credits Bacho’s publication as one that is “accessible, contains fears and joys to which young people can relate, and offers a great deal to ponder.” Bobby Vicente, the protagonist, is hoping for a better future beyond Seattle’s Yesler Terrace housing project. . . .  However, in quick order, he has to confront a tragic trifecta—the deaths of his beloved Creole mother and his protective older brother (killed in Vietnam)—and the looming death of his Filipino father.

—Publisher’s release