Vroman's Bookstore presents novelist Rachel M. Harper, reading from her new book, The Other Mother, on a young man's unraveling of family secrets and revelations, amidst the intersections of class, race, and sexuality, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Street, Pasadena, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.vromansbookstore.com/rachel-m-harper-discusses-the-other-mother)
Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)