MCRD San Diego Library Professional Book Club

April's featured book from the Marine Corps Professional Reading Program is a graphic novel, The White Donkey: Terminal Lance by Maximilian Uriarte. Library staff will lead an in-depth discussion, plus share tips on how to write high-quality reports of your professional reading.

Virtual event is hosted on MS Teams at 11:00 am on April 30, 2025. Registration is required for the virtual event.

An in-person discussion will take place on the same date at 4:30 pm at the MCRD Library. Base access is required for the in-person event.

About the Book:

A powerful, compulsively page-turning, vivid, and moving tribute to the experience of war and PTSD, The White Donkey tells the story of Abe, a young Marine recruit who experiences the ugly, pedestrian, and often meaningless side of military service in rural Iraq. He enlists in hopes of finding that missing something in his life but comes to find out that it's not quite what he expected.

This is a story about a Marine, written and illustrated by a Marine, and is the first graphic novel about the war in Iraq from a veteran. The White Donkey explores the experience of being a Marine, as well as the challenges that veterans face upon their return home, and its raw power will leave you in awe.

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