Together We Read: "Sabrina & Corina" by Kali Fajardo-Anstine In-Person
The Community Library's Together We Read book club is hosted the third Tuesday of every other month and led by a diverse range of library staff. Books cover all genres from new fiction to classics to nonfiction, young adult, graphic novels, and everything in between. Join us for one discussion or many!
February's pick is the 2023 Winter Read, Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. This discussion of the entire collection of short stories will be led by the Library's Teen Advisory Group (TAG) Interns. Registration is recommended to join us.
The Library has multiple copies of Sabrina & Corina circulating in our collection: as a paperback, Overdrive ebook, Overdrive eaudiobook, and on Nooks available for checkout. The book is also available in Spanish. Please come in or talk to our librarians about reserving a copy.
- Date:
- Tuesday, February 21, 2023
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall
- Campus:
- The Community Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Classes & Discussions
About Sabrina & Corina:
Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart.
—Sandra Cisneros
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE STORY PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.
In “Sugar Babies,” ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. “Any Further West” follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In “Tomi,” a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, “Sabrina & Corina,” a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual.
Sabrina & Corina is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home.
