一本书/一个社区

The 2024-2025 一本书一社区 selection is 塞布丽娜 and 科瑞娜: Stories by 卡莉Fajardo-Anstine!

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一本书/一个社区 is excited to announce our 2024-2025 selection, 塞布丽娜 and 科瑞娜: Stories by 卡莉Fajardo-Anstine.

This is a remarkable collection of short stories by an award-winning author. The book has won the 2021 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2020 American Book Award.  It was also a finalist in the 2019 National Book Award.  The author will be visiting campus Thursday, October 17th at 5:30pm in the 康妮·戈奇剧院.  She will give a presentation and reading with some time for questions followed by a book signing in the lobby. 

For more information on the speaker, please visit www.prhspeakers.com.

“卡莉Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, 格蕾丝, 安静的力量.

在《太阳集团娱乐场登陆网站》中,” ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. “Any Further West” follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. 在“托米-,” a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, “塞布丽娜 & 科瑞娜,” a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual. a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, 遗产, and the eternal send of home.”

——企鹅兰登书屋

作者简介

“卡莉Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally bestselling author of the novel 光明的女人 and the widely acclaimed short story collection 塞布丽娜 & 科瑞娜, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fajardo-Anstine is the 2022–2024 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University. She is from Denver, Colorado.”

——卡莉Fajardo-Anstine

SJC 一本书/一个社区 Committee

一本书/一个社区 is a common reading program and a high-impact practice. It brings the college and community together through a shared learning experience. The committee is planning activities and events that feature themes related to this year’s selection. We anticipate a year of powerful and interesting programming! All of our events are free and open to the public. We encourage you to join us!

The mission of SJC 一本书/一个社区 is to promote campus and community dialogue and literacy through curriculum and events.