{"product_id":"book-club-station-south-autobiography-of-cotton","title":"Book Club Station South: Autobiography of Cotton","description":"\u003cp\u003eCome and join us for Jot Book Club at Station South, Levenshulme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8th July, 7-8.15pm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeet and talk with other readers in an informal, loosely structured setting about your impressions, feelings, interpretations, associations and pleasures of reading our chosen book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEveryone welcome!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur July Book Club will be reading 'Autobiography of Cotton', by Cristina Rivera Garza (And Other Stories, 2026).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePurchase of the book here will secure you a place in the club on a first come first served basis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePLEASE NOTE:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSunday 31st May 10-4pm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSunday 14th June 10-4pm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSunday 28th June 10-4pm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novel about how cotton workers transformed the Mexico-US borderlands, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Cotton\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough 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, \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Cotton\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58087127515523,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/0424\/5566\/files\/AutobiographyofCotton.png?v=1779283032","url":"https:\/\/jotbookshop.com\/products\/book-club-station-south-autobiography-of-cotton","provider":"Jot Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}