{"id":10621,"date":"2024-10-01T08:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=10621"},"modified":"2024-10-15T19:52:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T23:52:15","slug":"border-issues-are-focus-of-october-book-club-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=10621","title":{"rendered":"Border Issues Were Focus of October Book Club Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We heard a lot about border issues in the 2024  political campaign. The October, 2024 book choice, <em>American Dirt<\/em> by Jeanne Cummings, was a timely one as it deals with a woman and son&#8217;s trek to the U.S. to escape the drug cartels of Acapulco, after her husband&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/01\/14\/796218804\/to-stand-still-is-to-die-a-new-novel-follows-migrants-to-american-dirt\">NPR&#8217;s Maureen Vorrigan<\/a> says the novel, &nbsp;&#8220;captures what it&#8217;s like to have the familiar order of things fall away and the rapidity with which we humans, for better or worse, acclimatize ourselves to the abnormal&#8230;..<em>American Dirt<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;novel that, for me, nails what it&#8217;s like to live in this age of anxiety, where it feels like anything can happen, at any moment. Another reviewer said it is our generation&#8217;s <em>Grapes of Wrath.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book club met on Zoom October 14. Contact Jennifer Roberts Crittendon &lt;315-633-2817>\u00a0for info on upcoming books and to get the Zoom link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We heard a lot about border issues in the 2024 political campaign. The October, 2024 book choice, American Dirt by &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=10621\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programs",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10647,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}