On the Same Page

The Friends of the Claremont Library chose Luis Alberto Urrea's Into the Beautiful North as their selection for this fall's On the Same Page where we are all encouraged to read the same book across the City.  Along with reading this book, we discuss it in book groups and attend various events sponsored by the Friends.  This year the author will be in Claremont at an informal brown bag lunch as well as at the CMC Atheneum.

Next week my women's book club will discuss this book, and a few weeks later our co-ed club will also talk about the novel.

I enjoyed the not-quite-believable story of these young people who cross the border into the US in search of men to bring back to their small town, since most of the men had fled into the north.  The characters are fun, the language, not-quite magical realism, flows in a lovely storytelling ease.

Here is a youtube video of the author talking about this book.