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Join our reading club, we will be discussing The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar, a sprawling, panoramic social novel about Southern California.
Tobar is a masterful storyteller, and his writing is propulsive, especially after a fight between the adult Torres-Thompsons leaves Araceli to look after two of the couple’s children, with devastating effects. But his portrait of Southern California as a multilayered landscape is as important as it is compelling, challenging preconceptions of class and culture, assimilation and identity, and how they operate. The Torres-Thompsons are a success story…until everything goes wrong. Beneath Tobar’s unflinching eye, The Barbarian Nurseries becomes a novel that is bigger than the sum of its parts, an exploration of the racial, economic, and social divides of Southern California, a territory in which everyone seems alienated from everyone else and no one can say, exactly, who they are
Books are avaialable at the service desk, ask a librarian for your copy.
For ADA accommodations, call (213) 228-7430 at least 72 hours prior to the event.
Para ajustes razonables según la ley de ADA, llama al (213) 228-7430 al menos 72 horas antes del evento.