Reading Group

Third Tuesdays at Members’ Homes

April 16: Solito by Zavier Samora, NF 2022
A memoir of his trek from El Salvador to the US, as a 9 year old attempting to rejoin his parents.
“In the sea of immigration memoirs, this is a good one,” says the NYT reviewer
Host: Rosalie Bianchi – For more info or directions call 505-783-4076

May 21: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, Fiction, 2022 .
Rural Virginia, 1980s, growing poverty and addiction. “It’s hard to think of another living novelist
who could take a stab at Dickens and rise above the level of catastrophe,” says the admiring
reviewer of the NYT.
Host: Caroly Jones – For more info or directions call 505-870-6046

June 18: The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan, NF 2006
A book providing a breath of hope for the future in the Middle East in this “affecting story of an
unlikely truce, even a peace, between Palestinians and Israelis in contested territory” around a
house and a lemon tree in the West Bank. Kirkus Reviews.
Host: Kristi Davis – For more info or directions call 505-783-4444