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Adult Book Group: Non–Fiction

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!

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.