Hom's art belies the emotional weight he brings to chronicling the changes in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood, through the eyes of Wallace, who's seeing the city after almost half a century away. What Wallace experiences is more than losing familiar family homes to condos — he's coming back to a Seattle whose economic, racial, and cultural fabric has essentially changed. It's a shock of several kinds, and Hom's clean lines and gentle but direct storytelling are the perfect vehicle.

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