Join us for Bløm’s book club! Every four to six weeks we get together to share drinks and reflections on thought provoking books from a diverse range of authors and topics. A great way to enjoy a drink, explore new books, and to meet others in the Bløm community! Didn't have a chance to finish the book? No problem, you can still join for great company and conversation.
If you would like to join us, copies can be found at the Ann Arbor District Library, the Saline Library, the Ypsilanti Library, online, and locally. Literati has generously offered a 15% discount on copies purchased there. If you’d like to utilize this discount, simply visit/call Literati and let them know you’re part of the Bløm Book Club.
This round we will be reading We Will be Jaguars: A Memoir of my People by Nemonte Nenquimo:
From Storygraph, “Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest--one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s--Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. She played barefoot in the forest and didn't walk on pavement, or see a car, until she was a teenager and left to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. But after Nemonte's ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture, she listened.
We Will Be Jaguars is an astonishing memoir by an equally astonishing woman. Nemonte digs into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, and hacking away at racist notions of Indigenous peoples. Ultimately, she reveals a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself.
Nemonte returned to the forest and traditional ways of life and became one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism. She spearheaded an alliance of Indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary rainforest.”
Happy reading, and we look forward to seeing you on March 16th, 2025 at 2:30 pm.