February title

 


Our February book title is The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.  We'll meet in person and on zoom on Wednesday February 23rd at 1pm.

Copies of the book are available at the library.  Regular print, large print, cd audiobook and Overdrive/Libby ebook and audiobook editions are available for this title.

 

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect?

Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.       ---www.penguinrandomhouse.com

 

 

 

American Dirt

 We’ll be meeting to discuss American Dirt on Wednesday January 26th at 1pm here at the library (in the Local History Room).  We are also offering the option of participating via zoom.  The link to the zoom meeting is below.  Just click on the first link in the invitation and it should get you into the zoom ‘waiting room’ and I will let you into the meeting.  (The information below the first link is how to connect via telephone, so you can ignore that part unless that’s the only way you have of joining in). Let me know if you have any questions about how to join.

 

Topic: January Book Group

Time: Jan 26, 2022 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

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