Book Club: Barrio Bushido by Benjamin Bac Sierra

Monday, 9/28/2020
7:00 - 8:00
Virtual Library

United States

We will be discussing Barrio Bushido by Benjamin Bac Sierra, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author.

Latino teens Lobo, Toro and Santo form a gang based on the philosophies of Bushido and hatch a plan to rob organized crime mobsters.

Benjamin Bac Sierra was raised by a widowed mother and the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District. After serving as a grunt in the Marine Corps, where he participated in front-line combat during the first Gulf War, Ben completed his B.A. in English at U.C. Berkeley, earned a teaching credential and a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and merited a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Currently, he is a professor at City College of San Francisco and a community innovator and keynote speaker throughout the Bay Area. Ben’s essays and stories have been published in newspapers and literary magazines. His first novel Barrio Bushido was presented a Best of the Bay Award and an International Latino Book Award.

 

Registration: https://bit.ly/OTSPBkClb9-28-20

 

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