Reading Group

Monthly READING GROUP
Third Tuesdays at Members’ Homes or The Old School Gallery

July 21: A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr, F-1980
In this short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.
Host Kristi Davis, 2 pm At her pool. Call 505-783-4444 for directions.

August 17: Good Night Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea, Historical F, 2023
This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross.
Host Kristi Davis, 2 pm At her pool. Call 505-783-4444 for directions.

September 15: A Manual for Cleaning Women, by Lucia Berlin, NF 2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the SF Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers, and bad Christians.
Host Caroly Jones, 7:30pm at her home. Call 505-870-6046 for directions