Book Circles

CLFSA has hosted book circles since 2017, many where we met the author! 

2024-2025

Winter: The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande

Fall: Solito by Javier Zamora

Summer: Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

2023-24

Spring: Creep by an author from local, Santa Maria, Myriam Gurba

Winter: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Machado

Fall: A Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes (photographed: Patricia Ponce, Shanae Aurora Martinez, Ana Garcia, Cat Placencia, and Kari Mansager)

Summer: Solito by Javier Zamora (photographed: Patricia Ponce, Kari Mansager, Author Javier Zamora, and Cat Placencia)

2022-2023

Spring: The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Winter: Becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution by Dr. Gina Ann Garcia

Fall: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Summer: Of Women & Salt by Gabriela Garcia

2021-2022

Spring: When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago

Winter: Eat the Mouth that Feeds You by Carribean Fragoza

Fall: The White Tortilla by David Diaz

2016-2017

Winter: Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me by Ana Castillo (photographed: Delfina Medina, Patricia Ponce, Author Ana Castillo, Kari Mansager, Debra Valencia-Laver, and Jack Sandoval)