The “JISD Reads Together” campaign kicks off on March 15th!
Books ordered on thetwig.com can either be delivered to your home (shipping charges apply) or picked up at The Twig for no extra charge.
A 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book
Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL?
Salvar el restaurante. Salvar la ciudad. Conseguir a la chica. Hacer sentir orgullosa a su abuela. ¿Puede Arturo Zamora, de trece años, hacerlo todo o está por enfrentarse a un ÉPICO FRACASO?
A 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book
Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL?
Buy one copy of The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora to donate to Judson ISD. Or buy several! The Twig makes it easy to help all the JISD readers. The Twig will deliver these donated copies of the book to JISD.
Neon Lit Alumni Reading @ The Twig Book Shop
About the Authors:
Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella’s narrator — a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier — finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Café Bovary with its four members: N
"Marianne Chan's brilliant debut collection masterfully develops themes of identity and the long-term effects of colonization."
--Largehearted Boy
Olivia Clare's delightfully strange and tender debut collection traces the impact of larger-than-life forces on everyday people.
Winner of the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award
These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than expected. There's humor, but it's going to hurt.
This event has been cancelled.
Throughout her seven critically acclaimed collections, Sidney Wade has established herself as a poet with a serious but light touch, capable of the clarity and inventiveness it takes to work a problem to both pleasure and resolution.
In My Surly Heart, the prolific poet and novelist David Huddle reflects on turning seventy-six years of age and records his aghast reactions to changes brought about by the current president of the United States. Huddle avoids the pitfalls of speechifying, pseudo-philosophizing, or indulging in unmitigated complaint.
Winner of the 2020 Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award
Because What Else Could I Do is a sequence of fifty-five untitled short poems, almost all of them addressed to the poet’s husband during the six months following his sudden and shocking death.
Goliad Review will sponsor an author reading at the Twig Book Shop on March 6th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. The reading will feature a diverse lineup of writers who have published novels, short story collections, essays, and poetry.
Though Goliad Review has published major literary figures like Marjorie Perloff, William Logan, Rae Armantrout, Richard Burgin and others, the journal has also been a showcase for working-class writers.