Reading the Western Landscape Community Book Discussion
Schedule
Wed Nov 20 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden | Arcadia, CA
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Soil by Camille T. Dungy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023 to be discussed Wednesday, November 20, 2024.ISBN: 9781982195304
The Book Group explores the portrayal of western North American landscape in fiction, non-fiction, letters, drama, graphic novels, poetry, etc. The group uses a modified version of the Shared Inquiry™ method developed by the Great Books Foundation. The chosen book of the month must be read in order to actively participate, although participants who only want to listen are welcome. Let the host know. New participants are welcome. When the weather is good and disease rates are low, the group meets outside in appropriate places in the gloriously, beautiful grounds of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden with appropriate social distancing and masking if you chose to. Currently the group is meeting In Person at the Arboretum or, very rarely, on Zoom. Be sure to check for In Person dates and Zoom dates.
New members are always welcome! For more information about the Book Group, please contact, Arboretum Librarian, Susan Eubank, at 626-821-3213 or [email protected]. Please RSVP to Susan if you plan to attend.
ABOUT THIS MONTH'S SELECTION:
Soil by Camille T. Dungy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023 to be discussed Wednesday, November 20, 2024.
ISBN: 9781982195304
“... In 2020, Dungy, an English professor at Colorado State, located in the majority-White city of Fort Collins, received a Guggenheim fellowship, allowing her to take a break from teaching and focus on documenting her project of transforming what had been a conventional suburban lawn into a pollinator garden full of native plants...Instead of the conventional nature narrative, [she] offers a more complex, nuanced story in which the experience of nature is vital but is also entangled with race, national and family history, motherhood, and more. The text is the literary equivalent of the garden Dungy gradually coaxed into being: lively, messy, beset by invasive weeds, colorful, constantly changing, never quite under control, and endlessly interconnected. — Kirkus Reviews
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Where is it happening?
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Bauer Lawn & Fountains, Arcadia, CA 91007, United States,Arcadia, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
