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Los Angeles Book Club: Whereas

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PEN America hopes to see you at our March Book Club to discuss Whereas by PEN America Literary Award winner Layli Long Soldier. Hosted by Joseph Rios.

Whereas is an excavation, reorganization and documentation of a structure of language that has talked the United States through its many acts of violence.” —Natalie Diaz, The New York Times Book Review

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

Photo by Amy Haberland

Joseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn), winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award. He is from Fresno’s San Joaquin Valley. In 2017, he was named one of the “10 Debut Poets Who Will Change the World” by Poets & Writers Magazine. He lives in Los Angeles.