Stranger Than Fiction Book Discussion

Sometimes, life can be stranger than fiction. Join this monthly book club to discuss nonfiction titles. We will be meeting both in-person and online via Zoom. Register in advance to receive the Zoom meeting info to your email. Books will be available at the Circulation Desk one month prior to book club meeting.

This month, we will be reading and discussing Brave the wild river: the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny.

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first.