Pilsen Arts & Community House - Book Club
Schedule
Fri Dec 26 2025 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Pilsen Arts & Community House | Chicago, IL
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We will be meeting in person at:
Pilsen Arts & Community House
1637 W 18th St
Chicago, IL 60608
Join us for a discussion of the book:
The Tournament of Heirs by Amelia Perez
&
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
WE WILL NOT BE MEETING IN NOVEMBER.
The Tournament of Heirs:
Bloodshed is coming
It's simple.
Six Houses
Twelve Heirs
Only Two Blood Bound tributes can win and bring home victory.
Acalan has a duty to the empire he will inherit, and his sister Metztli has to make sure she keeps Acalan alive long enough to see his rule come to fruition. Together, both siblings must compete in the Tournament and win, but nothing in the empire is quite as it seems, and destiny has plans of its own.
Only one thing is certain for the two heirs of the House of Life.
Sacrifices must be made.
The Haunting of Alejandra:
Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her.
Nor can they see what Alejandra sees. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown.
When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family’s history, starting with the biological mother she never knew. As she goes deeper into the lives of the women in her family, she learns that heartbreak and tragedy are not the only things she has in common with her ancestors.
Because the crying woman was with them, too. She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her mother, her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness.
But Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. She has inherited the strength and the courage of her foremothers—and she will have to summon everything they have given her to banish La Llorona forever.
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Pilsen Arts & Community House, 1640 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608-2096, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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