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SUMMARY:Fall 2024 Book Review: Cathy Tile on "House of Doors" by Tan Twan Eng
DESCRIPTION:Cathy Tile – The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng\nA spellbinding novel about love\, betrayal\, colonialism\, and redemption set in 1921 Penang. \nLesley Hamlyn and her husband Robert host famed writer W. Somerset Maugham and his secretary Gerald at Cassowary House. As Maugham\, grappling with personal and professional crises\, seeks inspiration for his next book\, he uncovers Lesley’s secrets\, including her past connection to Dr. Sun Yat Sen and an Englishwoman’s murder trial. \nThis beautiful novel explores the complexities of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and power under empire\, based on real events. \nIn the series:\nSept. 30: Ruby Newman on James\, by Percival Everett\nNov. 18: Cathy Tile on The House of Doors\, Tan Twan Eng\nDec. 16: Tina Urman on Table for Two by Amor Towles
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SUMMARY:Fall 2024 Book Review Series #1
DESCRIPTION:Ruby Newman on James by Percival Everett\nA brilliant\, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When Jim overhears he’s to be sold and separated from his family\, he hides on Jackson Island\, where Huck Finn\, escaping his violent father\, joins him. Together\, they embark on a perilous journey down the Mississippi River toward the uncertain promise of freedom. This retelling highlights Jim’s agency\, intelligence\, and compassion while retaining key elements of the original story\, such as floods\, storms\, and encounters with the Duke and Dauphin. \nIn the series:\nSept. 30: Ruby Newman on James\, by Percival Everett\nNov. 18: Cathy Tile on The House of Doors\, Tan Twan Eng\nDec. 16: Tina Urman on Table for Two by Amor Towles
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SUMMARY:2023/2024 Book Review Series
DESCRIPTION:Tom Lake by Ann Patchett with Ruby Newman\nIt’s spring and Lara’s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries\, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they’ve always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage\, and a romance\, years before. \nTom Lake is a meditation on youthful love\, married love\, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac\, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. \nIn the series:\nJan. 8: “Daughters of the New Year” by E. M. Tran with Ruby Newman\nFeb. 12: “The Postcard” by Anne Berest with Cathy Tile\nApr. 8: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett with Ruby Newman\nMay 27: “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride with Cathy Tile
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SUMMARY:2023/2024 Book Review Series
DESCRIPTION:“Daughters of the New Year” by E. M. Tran with Ruby Newman\nA captivating debut novel that moves backwards in time to trace five generations of Vietnamese mothers and daughters\, drawing on Vietnamese zodiac astrology to chart the fateful events of their lives. \nA “haunted story of resilience and survival” (Meng Jin\, Little Gods)\, Daughters of the New Year is an addictive\, high-wire act of storytelling that illuminates an entire lineage of extraordinary women fighting to reclaim the power they’ve been stripped of for centuries. \nIn the series:\nJan. 8: “Daughters of the New Year” by E. M. Tran with Ruby Newman\nFeb. 12: “The Postcard” by Anne Berest with Cathy Tile\nApr. 8: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett with Ruby Newman\nMay 27: “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride with Cathy Tile\n*revised
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