Sunday Tea Book Club: The Carrying

Welcome to the Sunday Tea Book Club! Join us on the third Sunday of each month at 1:30 PM for tea and friendly conversation!

This month's book is The Carrying by Ada Limón.

"Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal." And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. "Fine then, / I'll take it," she writes. "I'll take it all." In Bright Dead Things, Limón showed us a heart "giant with power, heavy with blood"--"the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it's going to come in first." In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display--even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world."--Publisher's website.

Print Copies will be available in the branch a month before the discussion.

Feel free to email or call the library at 707-894-5271 with any questions.

2023 Sunday Book Club Schedule: 

January 15 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

February 19 The Henna Artist 

March 19 The Carrying 

April No Sunday book club in April

May No Sunday book club in May

June 18 Dial A for Aunties

July 16 The House in the Cerulean Sea

August 20 Our Voice of Fire

September 17 Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

October 15 Arsenic and Adobo

November 19 Ten Steps to Nanette

December 17 Piranesi