Come and join us for Jot Book Club at Station South, Levenshulme.

8th July, 7-8.15pm

Meet and talk with other readers in an informal, loosely structured setting about your impressions, feelings, interpretations, associations and pleasures of reading our chosen book.

Everyone welcome!

Our July Book Club will be reading 'Autobiography of Cotton', by Cristina Rivera Garza (And Other Stories, 2026).

Purchase of the book here will secure you a place in the club on a first come first served basis.

PLEASE NOTE:

You can choose to have your book home delivered at the usual rate of postage or to be picked up for free at our Station South pop-up shop on the following days ONLY:

• Sunday 31st May 10-4pm
• Sunday 14th June 10-4pm
• Sunday 28th June 10-4pm

About the book:

A novel about how cotton workers transformed the Mexico-US borderlands, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.

In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel, Human Mourning. In her own groundbreaking novel, Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera Garza recounts her grandparents’ journey from mining towns to those same cotton fields as it intersects with Revueltas’s life in a vivid and evocative history of cotton cultivation along the Mexico-US border.

Through archival research and personal narrative, Rivera Garza chronicles the way cotton transformed the borderlands by reconstructing the cotton workers’ strike and reveals how cycles of deprivation and ecocide persist across generations. Deeply personal and politically acute, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents’ lives and the territories they helped develop. An intimate fictionalization, Autobiography of Cotton reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration.