The Short Stack Book Club will meet the third Friday of the month to discuss short novels. This month’s selection is Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans. Accompanied by a small group of fellow exiles who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship, Juárez immerses himself in the city, which absorbs him like a sponge.
Copies will be held at the circulation desk for check out. Drop-ins are welcomed.
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