The Chup

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 , 5:30pm-6:30pm

Location: 516 ARTS – 516 Central Avenue Southwest, Albuquerque, NM

Price: $0 – $7.18

To start off the new year, we’re excited to feature “From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel” by Alex Gilvarry

To start off the new year, we’re excited to feature From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel by Alex Gilvarry for our 516 ARTS Book Club.

Boyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fresh out of fashion school in the Philippines. But on the brink of fame and fortune, there comes instead a knock on the door in the middle of the night: the flamboyant ex-Catholic is swept to America’s most notorious prison, administered a Qur’an and locked away indefinitely to discover his link to a terrorist plot.

“It’s rare for a novel to tread so fearlessly into the political and yet to emerge so deeply funny and humane. Gilvarry is a young talent on the rise. Watch him gallop through the mess we’ve made of our civilization with style and panache.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan

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