Join us on Saturday, November 15, 1:30-3:00pm for an author reading and conversation with award-winning author, Myriam Gurba, and Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, to celebrate Gurba’s new memoir, Poppy State.

Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings
Myriam Gurba has lived in California her entire life, with its plants and soils, forests and ecology, immersing herself in the language of the landscape as refracted through the languages and memories of her ancestors. In Poppy State, California plants serve as structural anchors in a wildly inventive work of narrative nonfiction that is part botanical criticism, part personal storytelling, and part study of place. The reader is invited to commune with California with Gurba as their guide, ushered through a compendium of anecdotes, reminiscences, utterances, lists, incantations, newspaper articles, and other ephemera.