EventsCastro Valley Reads 2025 Kick-Off Event

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Castro Valley Reads 2025 Kick-Off Event

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Castro Valley

Description

Let's kick off Castro Valley Reads 2025!

Join us to learn more about our featured book, The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea and listen to the beautiful music of Cascada de Flores!

You can pick up a free copy of the book, while supplies last!

Before coming to the Kick-Off event, please register for a Library-hosted discussion group, or you can create your own discussion group with three or more people.

For more information about discussion groups visit this page: aclibrary.org/castro-valley-reads

No need to register for the Kick-Off Event. Please register for a discussion group before coming to the Kick-Off.

The House of Broken Angels

In this work of contemporary fiction, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life.

Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.

Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.




An ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter or closed captioning can be provided for this program if requested at least seven (7) days in advance. For assistance, please contact your library or accessibility@aclibrary.org.

Program:
Our Community Reads
Suitable for:
Adults
Type:
Special Events
Language:
English

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