Los Angeles Book Club: Fruit of the Drunken Tree

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PEN America hopes to see you at our January Book Club to discuss Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Hosted by Sara Borjas.

“Original, politically daring, and passionately written—Fruit of the Drunken Tree is the coming-of-age female empowerment story we need in 2018.” —Vogue

SideShow Books offers a 20% discount on book club titles. Free and open to all, both PEN America Members and non-Members. Food and drink is available for purchase.

Sara Borjas is a Xicanx pocha and a Fresno poet. Her debut collection of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in March 2019 as part of the Akrilica series—a co-publishing venture with Letras Latinas that highlights innovative Latinx writing. Sara is a 2017 CantoMundo Fellow, the recipient of the 2014 Blue Mesa Poetry Prize, and a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She teaches creative writing at UC Riverside and lives in Los Angeles but stays rooted in Fresno.