Library readers club welcomes author Breezy Cade

Thomas Branigan Memorial Library’s Readers of the Purple Sage Book Club welcomes Las Cruces/El Paso author Breezy Cade for a virtual presentation about his books. The Zoom event takes place 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27.

In the early 1950s, the last wave of polio swept through the world. Breezy Cade contracted polio when he was a very young boy. Cade chronicles the history of polio (first recognized on an Egyptian carving almost 3,500 years ago) and his experiences in his book “Polio: My Life with the Disease,” published in March 2021. Cade will compare polio and the current Covid-19 pandemic during his presentation.

“Writing began as an avocation and a way to make a little extra money, writing magazine articles,” Cade said. “It was fun, and I loved the research. I also wrote short stories. An intriguing scenario popped into my head so I began writing it, thinking it would be another short piece. But it got bigger and bigger, turning into two novels. Then came the limited memoir about polio, which was mostly by request from friends. It was natural and spontaneous, and I’m not really sure I should take any credit for it. But here it is, and I hope you like it.”

Cade is also the author of the 2012 novel “Walks on Wind,” about Belk, a cop with an attitude, and Ed and Letty, a newly married couple. Belk is seemingly at odds with the world. Ed and Letty have budding careers and family plans, but first they need a home of their own. The lives of these three people intertwine in El Paso. The mysteries of the original native inhabitants and the Spanish Conquistadors, the diverse personalities of the characters and the pristine desert landscape all play into this tale.

Published in 2019, “Juan the Hobo” is the fictional story of an orphan in Cádiz, Spain in 1684. Juan dreams of freedom from the cruel orphanage where he lives. His future takes him to the streets of Cádiz, to the sea, to the new world of the Americas, to the deserts of the north and to a unique group of people in what is now Cíudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso.

Cade’s presentation is free and open to the public.

To be added to the Zoom invite list for the presentation, contact sagelibrary@las-cruces.org with “Cade” as the subject.