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See all- NA Cocktails + Book PairingPropagate, Sacramento , CA
7/26 AM - RSVPs are closed for this event. Thank you for your interest!
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✨ We are managing RSVPs through Handstamp. An RSVP through Meetup will not guarantee you a spot. Attendance is capped at 20. ✨Join us for a hot summer night full of NA cocktails and books! In collaboration with The Teetotalist, Sacramento Public Library staff will be recommending your next great read based off of specialty mocktails crafted by The Teetotalist bartender, Jocelyn. Kick off your summer reading journey with good drinks, good books, and good company!
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Not open - Book Group: SolitoLink visible for attendees
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One aspect I love about my job is that I have AMAZINGLY TALENTED colleagues who recommend the best books for discussion. This month's selection, Solito: a Memoir by Javier Zamora, comes from an in-person book group that discusses a wide range of nonfiction titles. Her book group enjoyed a great discussion and I hope we do too 😊
"A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this memoir.
Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--"one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure."
Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers and a coyote hired to lead them to safety, Javier's trip is supposed to last two short weeks.
At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents' arms, snuggling in bed between them, living under the same roof again. He does not see the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family."
Synopsis from Goodreads.com
- Book Group: The Joy Luck ClubLink visible for attendees
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Our 2024 classic selection is The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. The audiobook is readily available on Hoopla for you joyful listeners 🎧
"Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery."
Synopsis from Goodreads.com
