A normally wonderful book club meeting was made perfect by a visit from Lisa Alvarez and Andrew Tonkovich, the editors of Orange County: A Literary Field Guide.
This is a great anthology whether you live in Orange County or somewhere else in the world. But if you do happen to live here, or have lived here, or plan to live here, it is essential reading. Lisa Alvarez and Andrew Tonkovich have done a wonderful job collecting stories, poems, and essays that make the region and it’s history come alive.
To be a thinking person living in Orange County is to both hate it and love it and that comes through in the book. Orange County can seem soulless and empty, filled with traffic and endless tract homes but somehow we come to love it, feel safe here, and know it is home. Reading stories about home written by people who lived here was a thrill.