One Winchester, Many Traditions is sponsoring a new book club, Read, Meet, Eat – an international book club (with snacks!) The first meeting will be on Tuesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. to discuss A Good Fall by National Book Award-winner Ha Jin. Anyone who has read the book is welcome to attend.
A Good Fall is "a new collection [of short stories] that focuses on Flushing, one of New York City's largest Chinese immigrant communities. With startling clarity, Jin explores the challenges, loneliness and uplift associated with discovering one's place in America. Many different generational perspectives are laid out, from the young male sweatshop-worker narrator of 'The House Behind a Weeping Cherry,' who lives in the same rooming-house as three prostitutes, to the grandfather of 'Children as Enemies,' who disapproves of his grandchildren's desires to Americanize their names…With piercing insight, Jin paints a vast, fascinating portrait of a neighborhood and a people in flux." (Publishers Weekly)
Copies of the book will be available on loan through the Library (ask at the Circulation Desk for book club books) and there will be copies for purchase at a discount at BookEnds (mention the book group). For more information, please contact Janet Nelson at jnelson@minlib.net or 721-7171 x20.
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The second meeting this year will take place on Feb. 1 to discuss The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Divakaruni.
