Rescheduled to June 2nd: Join us for a Book & Cocktails, an eclectic fiction book club co-hosted by Common Spirits.
On JUNE 2nd at 7 pm, discuss The Beadworkers: Stories by Beth Piatote. This is part of May's #FablesReadingChallenge Short Stories.
Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world.
Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return.
A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college—one French and the other Lakota—each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce–Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains ina moving revision of the Greek tragedyAntigone.
Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life.
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Book & Cocktails is an eclectic book club that reads various titles. Book & Cocktails meets at Common Spirits every 4th Monday of the month.
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