Book Group

We'll be reading Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan in June. Please contact Meaghan at mschwelm@cwmars.org to request a copy or to be added to our Book Group email list.

"By painting her life in such exquisite detail, Talusan breathes new life into the well-worn body of the transgender life story, showing the reader deep wells of complexity where, in a less truthful or less talented writer's hands, oversimplification and cliché might reign."

--The Boston Globe

"A marvel of a story wrought with near-archeological precision and deep inquiry into history, hope, joy and human redemption. An artist's statement that offers new ways to think and feel in bodies cast ashore, Fairest is a ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival. It is also funny, utterly alive, and fashioned with care and hope."

--Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous