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Bright Young Women

Date: May 3, 2025
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Fair Oaks Library | 11601 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, CA
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Adult Book Group: NonFiction

Join us each month on the third Saturday of the month for lively discussions about diverse non-fiction titles, authors, topics, and content.

This month, we will be discussing Children of the Land  by Marcelo Hernández Castillo. New participants are always welcome!

Cover of the book Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. “You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.”

With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. Children of the Land distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen.

Synopsis by: Goodreads.

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AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Social | Reading |