This month we’re reading Pink Slime by award-winning Uruguayan novelist Fernanda Trías! We hope to see you on the Glou patio SUNDAY AUGUST 4TH* to discuss! As always, book club is free and open to all. We encourage you to grab your copy from us online or in-store!

A harrowing, intimate novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them teeters on the edge

"An intimate, melancholic look at an ecologically ravaged future." --Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic and Silver Nitrate

"Like a nightmare, like an omen, like the lines of an exquisite poem, Pink Slime echoes in my memory long after I read it. A book has never been so relevant, necessary, painful, and simply splendid." --Jazmina Barrera, author of Cross-Stitch and Linea Nigra

In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford--a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows--even if staying means being left behind.

An evocative elegy for a safe, clean world, Pink Slime is buoyed by humor and its narrator's resiliency. This unforgettable novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge, and the beauty and fragility of our most intimate relationships.

*INSTEAD OF THE USUAL LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH, WE’LL MEET THE FIRST SUNDAY OF AUGUST! Find us at the Newport Folk Festival the last weekend of July ;-)