Solutions-Focused Community Book Club
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | CFSA Campus
The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, in partnership with Tucson Tome Gnome and Tucson Spotlight, invites you to join the Solutions-Focused Community Book Club, a quarterly gathering for community members who care about Southern Arizona and want to learn together.
This book club brings people from different backgrounds into conversation around shared readings and real-world impact. You do not need to finish the book to participate. Guided questions will be provided, and open discussion is always welcome, making it easy to join whether you’ve read a few pages or the whole book.
The remarkable Tucson Tome Gnome and Tucson Spotlight will also host a community book-sharing table. Bring a few books from your RTS (ready-to-share) stack and take home something new to enjoy. Any remaining books will be added to CFSA’s Little Free Library, Dog Eared Books.
Together, we will explore ideas, listen to one another, and reflect on how what we are reading connects to our community. This is a welcoming space where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and everyone belongs.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Agenda
5:15 pm Registration and Check-In
5:30 pm Welcoming Remarks
5:35 pm Group Agreements and Discussion Overview
5:40 pm Small Group Conversation
6:45 pm Closing Remarks
Register Here
Monk and Robot
A Psalm for the Wild-Built & A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
by Becky Chambers
Becky Chambers’ delightful, post-Utopian, Hugo Award-winning series gives us hope for the future.
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.
One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of “what do people need?” is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They’re going to need to ask it a lot.
Becky Chambers’ series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?