Book Club
When
- Friday, May 23, 2008 at 8:00 PM 20080524T010000Z
Where
Who should come
- We welcome all. Please try to read the book, although if you are new or haven't had the opportunity to get or read the book, you're certainly welcome to come.
Why
- This is a very social meeting, in a casual environment where it is very easy to meet others. Men and women are welcome, and conversations are widely varied, not just focused on the book.
How to find the organizer(s)
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"Directions will be provided later. Meeting will be at Todd and Martha's house, this is in North County."
--Lisa and Neale
Details
The book is Bootheel Man by Morley Swingle.
The book has a local connection with Cahokia Mounds, and we hope to schedule a field trip sometime soon after our meeting.
>>Review
This exciting and clever tale adeptly entertains and educated about the serious and dangerous problem of desecration of sacred tribal cultural items. Attorney Swingle takes us from a dramatic present-day crime, back in time to 1050 Cahokia to introduce readers to the artist Gazing Woman and chunkey-player Thunder Runner, then back again to the present and the indigenous people who try to protect ancestral remains. Learning about the passion and tenacity of the Old Ones while they were a living man and woman, rather than simply as 'artifacts' to be studied, displayed, or sold on the black market, elevates the story to an important, personal level. --Devon Mihesuah, Cora Lee Beers Price Professor, University of Kansas.<<
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