What is the importance of Seattle, Washington in the memoir, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind?

Seattle, Washington is one of the most nationally and internationally famed urban centers of the American Westernmost Continental North. In this sense by 'Continental' is meant 'the lower 48 states'. The city has grown steadily during the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

It is found at the beginning and end of the memoir as it is where the author lived when he wrote the book.