June Book Club Discussion - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

Hello! June's book club discussion will be about the Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

About: Sissy Hankshaw is a beautiful, free-spirited woman with abnormally large thumbs—an oddity that she turns into her greatest asset as a hitchhiker crisscrossing America in search of freedom, identity, and meaning. When her journey brings her to a wild and dusty ranch in South Dakota, she finds herself tangled in a surreal rebellion led by fierce cowgirls, a philosophizing Chicano, and a mystic who raises whooping cranes. As the lines between sanity, society, and self begin to blur, Sissy must confront what it means to live authentically in a world that worships control. A psychedelic satire of Americana, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a kaleidoscopic odyssey of sex, spirit, and the stubborn pursuit of personal truth.

Description: In Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins crafts a mind-bending, genre-defying tale that blends counterculture satire with philosophical musings and gonzo Americana. At its center is Sissy Hankshaw, a hitchhiking icon with oversized thumbs and a destiny as sprawling as the open road. As she drifts from New York ad agencies to a rebellious cowgirl commune in the wilds of South Dakota, Sissy becomes the unlikely heroine of a story that explores freedom, femininity, and the absurdities of modern life. With exuberant prose and hallucinatory wit, Robbins transforms a tale of social outcasts and prairie iconoclasts into a dazzling meditation on identity, nature, and the slippery boundaries of reality.