Virtual discussion of the critically acclaimed 2024 memoir by Indigenous author Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender. It explores her coming‑of‑age as a mixed‑tribe Native American girl born on the Quechan reservation and raised in Navajo territory, navigating the pull between assimilation and cultural inheritance. Through vivid, lyrical prose she weaves personal stories—about family, trauma, identity—with broader histories of Indigenous displacement, boarding schools, and systemic erasure, offering an illuminating and nuanced look at Native identity in current times. A finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction, Whiskey Tender was also a longlisted title for a 2025 Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction. Good Reads score 4.1 out of 5.  Register for Zoom link here.