Whitewater Memorial Library will offer a three-part book discussion series in October and November, exploring the theme “Hispanic Heritage: Mothers, Sisters and Daughters.” Members of the community are invited to attend the free programs at the library, 118 E. Topeka.
The series is sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council, a non-profit cultural organization, as parts of its Talk About Literature in Kansas program. The Council’s Resource Center is furnishing the books and providing discussion leaders for the series.The first meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 14. Gene T. Chávez of Kansas City will lead a discussion of “Brand New Memory” by Elías Miguel Muñoz, which addresses the basic question of whether children of immigrants have a right to learn about their family’s homeland.The series continues Oct. 30 with “Esperanza’s Box of Saints” by Maria Amparo Excandón, about a mother’s humorous journey from Mexico to Los Angeles in search of her missing daughter, and concludes Nov. 13 with “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros, which introduces the reader to Chicago’s Latino community.Readers participating in the series will journey through different worlds and different family relationships, encountering the diversity of Hispanic culture. The heroines of the novels include a Cuban American teenager, a Mexican mother, and a young Mexican American girl in Chicago. Each book explores the universal bonds of grandmothers, mothers sisters and daughters.To check out books or for more information, contact the library at (316) 799-2471.WHITEWATER —
