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Join us for the Pacific Beach Library's monthly book discussion! Our group meets in a hybrid format, so you can choose whether you'd prefer to join us in-person in the PB Library's Community Room or virtually (please send an email to cwainwright@sandiego.gov for this year's Zoom login info). May's selection is Mecca by Susan Straight.
Description: Johnny Frías, a descendant of California's Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like the Santa Ana winds that every year bring the risk of fire, Johnny's moment of action twenty years ago sparked a slow-burning chain of connections that unites a vibrant, complex cast of characters in ways they never see coming.
If you'd like to check out a print copy of the book, they are available 1 month before each discussion at the Pacific Beach Library's Circulation Desk. Please call 858-581-9934 x0 before coming to pick it up so that staff may confirm availability.
Book Discussion Calendar
- March 14: Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel of the Heroic Women Who Served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps During World War I by Jennifer Chiaverini
- April 11: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
- May 9: Mecca by Susan Straight
- June 13: Searching for Home: An Immigrant's Journey from Ukraine to the USA by Judythe Roberts
- July 11: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
- August 8: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- September 12: Trust by Hernan Diaz
- October 10: Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by William McRaven
- November 14: One Book, One San Diego selection (to be announced)
- December 12: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- January 9, 2025: Select titles to discuss in 2025
- February 13, 2025: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride