Name: Southwest Reads Book Club: Rim to River
Start: 2026-01-28T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-01-28T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library

Discuss the stories of the Southwest with the Southwest Reads book club on the fourth Wednesday of every other month!
This month's read is Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona by Tom Zoellner
Tom Zoellner walked across the length of Arizona to come to terms with his home state. But the trip revealed more mountains behind the mountains.
Rim to River is the story of this extraordinary journey through redrock country, down canyons, up mesas, and across desert plains to the obscure valley in Mexico that gave the state its enigmatic name. The trek is interspersed with incisive essays that pick apart the distinctive cultural landscape of Arizona: the wine-colored pinnacles and complex spirituality of Navajoland, the mind-numbing stucco suburbs, desperate border crossings, legislative skullduggery, extreme politics, billion-dollar copper ventures, dehydrating rivers, retirement kingdoms, old-time foodways, ghosts of old wars, honky-tonk dreamers, murder mysteries, and magical Grand Canyon reveries.
In Rim to River, Zoellner does for Arizona what Larry McMurtry did for Texas in In a Narrow Grave and what Wallace Stegner did for Utah in Mormon Country: paint an enduring portrait of a misunderstood American state. An indictment, a love letter, and a homecoming story all at once.
Pick up a copy of this month's book from the Downtown Library Information Desk. Email [email protected] or call 928-213-2332 for additional information.
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