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By RYAN HUME
Dungeness
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noun
1. a headland and rocky
stretch of beach in Kent,
England, on the south coast,
where there are two nuclear
power plants and an auto-
mated lighthouse that bear
the same name
2. Dungeness Spit: the
longest natural sand spit
in the United States, which
juts 5.5 miles out into the
Strait of Juan de Fuca from
the top of the Olympic
Peninsula in Washington
state. The bay enclosed by
the spit and a river on the
peninsula share the same
name
3. Dungeness, Washing-
ton: an unincorporated
community that sits atop of
the Olympic Peninsula near
the spit on the bay of the
same name. Now called Old
Town Dungeness, the area
is separated from Canada by
the Strait of Juan de Fuca
4. Dungeness crab: meta-
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carcinus magister, a large,
delicious, edible crab that
lives in the eelgrass beds
of the West Coast of the
United States between the
Gulf of Alaska and central
California. Dungeness is
the only crab commercially
harvested from the waters
of Washington and Ore-
gon’s coastline. In 2009, the
Dungeness crab was desig-
nated the state crustacean
of Oregon
Origin:
The word originally comes
from the Old Norse, meaning
“headland,” and was applied
to the coastal area in Southern
England. The crustacean, which
is also known as a market crab,
takes its name from the fi shing
village in Washington State,
where it was fi rst commercially
harvested throughout the late
19th century. The fi rst known
use of the word as applied to
the shellfi sh was recorded in
1925.
“After getting the all-clear from
state health departments, Oregon and
Washington’s commercial Dungeness
crab i shermen i nally hit the water
Monday after being delayed for weeks
due to elevated levels of the marine
toxin domoic acid.”
—Katie Wilson, “Crab kicks into gear
with healthy start,” The Daily Astorian, Jan.
6, 2016
“When Dungeness crabs tested
positive for domoic acid in the early
1990s, 2003 and 2004, the crab indus-
try kept on harvesting. Razor clams
and mussels keep the poison in their
meat, so they were unsafe to eat, but
crab i shers simply killed the crabs,
ditched the butter and sold the meat.
“This year was diff erent because of
Asia’s newfound appetite for the crabs.
For the past eight years, Chinese crab
buyers have paid high-dollar prices for
live crabs to export to Asia. According
to Corbin, about 40 percent of Oregon’s
crabs have been sent to China alive in
the last few years.”
—The Associated Press, “Crabs safe
after toxin scare, but prices plummet,” The
Daily Astorian, Jan. 19, 2016
“Five pairs of legs keep the Dunge-
ness moving swiftly through the eel-
grass beds and sandy ocean bottoms
that are its home, and it can be found
from the shallows of the inter-tidal
zone all the way to depths of about
800 feet.”
—Lynette Rae McAdams, “Wilde Side:
The Dungeness crab,” Coast Weekend, April
23, 2015
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By RYAN HUME
Just finished:
“We the Animals:
a Novel” by Justin Torres
Houghton Mil in
Harcourt, 2011
Plot Notes: Three feral, mixed-race
brothers grow up in a rural part of up-
state New York. Equally torn between
caring for their exhausted and underap-
preciated mother and acquiring admira-
tion from their strong-willed and macho
father, this slim novel is a struggle for
the brothers’ identity both collectively
and alone through a number of tense,
funny and fresh vignettes that can
range anywhere from exploring their
neighborhood and getting into trouble
to accompanying their dad to his job as
a night watchman. Ultimately, the novel
becomes less about the brothers and
more about the narrator’s struggle with
his sexual identity.
Take Away: In Torres’ hands the
most familiar of emotions and even
the most inane of events can feel as it
has been rendered anew and jolted full
of electricity. In one of my personal fa-
vorites, called “Never-Never Time,” i rst
published in Tin House, the simple act
of three kids smashing fruits and veg-
etables in their kitchen a la Gallagher
becomes a lesson in birth, rebirth and
regret. Torres’ voice is funny, quirky and
full of wild life. As the boys age and be-
gin to gather their own identities, some
readers may be put off as the rest of the
family falls by the wayside and the nar-
rator begins to explore his sexuality, but
even this seemed to be a fundamental
truth that Torres had tapped into: When
we are young we are saturated and sur-
rounded by our families, but as we age
we may only remain in each other’s or-
bits. We can grow to become things that
even our parents and brothers do not
understand.
Recommended For: Fans of Dor-
othy Allison’s “Bastard Out of Carolina,”
fans of contemporary literature and
minimalism, like Denis Johnson, Aimee
Bender, and others. Also, a good all-
around introduction to contemporary
literature for young adults, perhaps
especially those interested in LBGT com-
ing-of-age stories.
Other books:
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“Landfall”
by Ellen Urbani
Forest Avenue Press, 2015
2870 O cean Ave Raym o n d W A 98577
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“A Man Called Ove”
by Fredrik Backman,
translated by
Henning Koch
Washington Square Press, 2015
The Sativas from
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Visit u s in RAY M O N D, W A.
Plot Notes: This visceral, historical
tale follows two mothers and their teen-
aged daughters — one black family,
one white — through the devastation
of New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina.
Why You Should Read: Urba-
ni, who now lives in Portland, was a
recent guest for Lunch in the Loft at
Beach Books, where she read from her
acclaimed debut novel, which Emmer-
ling described as one of her favorites
of 2015. Emmerling says that Urbani
really captures the chaos of the horrible
tragedy of Hurricane Katrina and brings
it to life.
Recommended By: Karen Emmer-
ling of Beach Books in Seaside.
Recommended By: Karla Nelson
of Time Enough Books in Ilwaco, Wash-
ington.
A Bestseller: Nelson has watched
this charming, irreverent tale by i rst-time
Swedish author and blogger Backman
steadily climb the New York Times Best-
seller List ever since she was hand-selling
it at Time Enough last summer.
Plot Notes: Ove is an old grump
set into conl ict with a young family
when, on the i rst day they move into
the house next door, they accidentally
l atten his mailbox. What “A Man Called
Ove” reminds us of is there might be
more going on under the crusty exterior
of an old curmudgeon than we initially
realize.