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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Reyna Grande
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nAn ambitious memoir in essays by beloved bestselling author Reyna Grande that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. \nWhat is the true power of stories? Can they heal the jagged edges of a traumatic childhood? Is the cost of telling the story worth the price of the cure? \nReyna Grande has spent her career capturing the raw reality of life across borders. In this intricate and deeply intimate memoir-in-essays\, the author of the landmark memoirs The Distance Between Us and A Dream Called Home again turns her gaze inward to explore the scars left by migration and the ongoing work of stitching herself back together. \nWith her signature blend of sophistication and raw honesty\, Grande interrogates how living between two nations\, two languages\, and two identities has shaped the woman\, mother\, and writer she has become. Moving from the legacy of violence in her hometown of Iguala\, Mexico\, to a bittersweet family vacation in Europe spent reconciling her own impoverished past with her children’s world of abundance\, she uncovers startling truths about the nature of survival. \nWhether being racially profiled in the Arizona borderlands or finding unexpected wisdom from the slugs in her garden\, Grande unflinchingly asks: How do we bridge the gap between who we were and who we have become? How do we turn pain into power? When memory threatens to define us\, how can we use story to heal while still honoring our boundaries? \nMigrant Heart is a powerful testament to Grande’s role as a storyteller and cultural witness. It expands our understanding of life in the United States and the complex people who cross and live within its borders. It is an essential read for the seekers\, the dreamers\, and anyone who believes in the enduring\, transformative power of finding one’s voice. \nAbout the Author \nReyna Grande is an award-winning author\, motivational speaker\, and writing teacher. As a young girl\, she crossed the US–Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles\, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory\, Across a Hundred Mountains\, and Dancing with Butterflies\, the memoirs Migrant Heart\, The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition\, and A Dream Called Home\, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration\, Survival\, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland\, California\, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-reyna-grande/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader Bookstore\, 617 2nd St.\, Davis\, 95616
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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SUMMARY:Davis Silent Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to make time for reading? Join the Davis Silent Book Club! Bring whatever book you’re reading or want to read. We read together for an hour and then discuss what we read for about an hour. After that\, the conversation goes in whatever direction it wants to go. Every other Sunday.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/davis-silent-book-club-3/
LOCATION:Nashoba Wines\, 820 4th St\, Davis\, C\, 95616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Davis Bookworms":MAILTO:davisbookworms@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Zinzi Clemmons
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nONE OF LIT HUB’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 \nA radically vulnerable and virtuosic inquiry into the pursuit of freedom and the interminable nature of struggle\, from the award-winning author of What We Lose. \nWeaving personal reflections with piercing insight and expansive vision across nine brilliant essays\, Zinzi Clemmons explores the complexities of the elusive concept of freedom. As the daughter of a South African mother and a Trinidadian America father\, she recounts growing up in the largely white\, affluent town of Swarthmore\, Pennsylvania—and her frequent travels to Johannesburg\, where the lofty promise of freedom was all around her. Coming of age amidst the euphoria of South Africa’s first all-race elections\, she grapples with the legacy of Nelson Mandela and the shattered hope in the wake of the Obama era. Clemmons critiques the entrenched inequalities that haunt both countries\, from the tragic loss of a childhood friend to the violence that often befalls women who have the audacity to be free. \nIn a deft mix of memoir\, family history\, criticism\, and reportage\, drawing on a vast range of material from Joan Didion to James Baldwin\, political analysis and history to Clemmons’s own experiences across the globe\, Freedom is an incendiary exploration of race\, sex\, class\, and inheritance. In elegiac prose\, Clemmons trains her discerning eye on American institutions and mythologies\, probing the bounds of liberation and autonomy to interrogate our most enduring quest—the relentless pursuit of freedom for all. \nAbout the Author \nZinzi Clemmons is the author of What We Lose\, which was a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree\, she was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. A cofounder of the literary journal Apogee\, she lives in Northern California\, where she serves as director of the creative writing program at the University of California\, Davis.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-zinzi-clemmons/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader Bookstore\, 617 2nd St.\, Davis\, 95616
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Tom Lin
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nFrom the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing\, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful\, mysterious\, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives. \nWhen Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife\, Mei Lee\, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a distant relative\, all they have are the possessions on their back\, some hidden gold\, and a pocketful of chrysanthemum seeds. After a rocky start and a long\, harsh winter\, the couple find themselves successfully raising chrysanthemums and livestock\, and soon after\, a daughter\, Mara. \nBut when representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers buy an acre of the Hsiu’s farmland and begin building a missile silo\, the inexplicable starts to occur: Mara can commune with the animals on the farm\, Mei develops a hidden talent for augury\, and the chrysanthemums become impervious to everything. When the Hsius learn that the project on their farm is an effort to make America’s nuclear deterrent invulnerable\, they see firsthand the long arm of power and empire. \nIn the years and generations that follow\, increasingly impacted by the silo and its residue\, the Hsius experience strange\, wondrous\, and tragic events on their farm. An ambitious epic and an ode to the beauty and glory of our connection to the natural world\, Babylon\, South Dakota upends the idea of “strangers in a strange land” to become a classic American story. It is a daring novel about how choices reverberate across generations and asks us what we owe to one another. \nTIME Magazine’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year | Town & Country’s Best Books of Spring 2026 | New York Times Book Review’s 32 Novels We’re Excited About This Spring | The Spokesman Review’s 12 upcoming books we’re excited to read \nAbout the Author \nTom Lin was born in China and immigrated to the United States when he was four. A graduate of Pomona College\, he also holds a PhD from the University of California\, Davis. His first novel\, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu\, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. He teaches English and creative writing at the University of Iowa.
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SUMMARY:Davis Silent Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to make time for reading? Join the Davis Silent Book Club! Bring whatever book you’re reading or want to read. We read together for an hour and then discuss what we read for about an hour. After that\, the conversation goes in whatever direction it wants to go. Every other Sunday.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/davis-silent-book-club-4/
LOCATION:Nashoba Wines\, 820 4th St\, Davis\, C\, 95616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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