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SUMMARY:My Friends
DESCRIPTION:Come and join friends around the world as we meet online for the monthly St. Paul’s Book Club! In March we are reading My Friends by Hisham Matar. \nOne evening\, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi\, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio\, about a man being eaten alive by a cat\, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author\, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home\, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. \nThere\, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya\, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London\, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash\, Khaled finds himself injured\, clinging to life\, unable to leave Britain\, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done\, on tapped phone lines\, would expose them to danger. \nWhen a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa\, the author of the fateful short story\, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him\, as the Arab Spring erupts\, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety\, family and exile\, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him. \nA devastating meditation on friendship and family\, and the ways in which time tests—and frays—those bonds\, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers. (Goodreads) \nClick here to join the meeting.
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SUMMARY:The Hunchback of Notre Dame
DESCRIPTION:Come and join friends around the world as we meet online for the monthly St. Paul’s Book Club! For February\, to celebrate the re-opening of Notre Dame to the public\,  we are reading Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. \nThis extraordinary historical French gothic novel\, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol\, the cathedral of Notre-Dame\, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo\, the disabled bell-ringer of Notre-Dame\, as he struggles to stand up to his ableist guardian Claude Frollo\, who also wants to commit genocide against Paris’ Romani population. \nThe novel has been described as a key text in French literature and has been adapted for film over a dozen times\, in addition to numerous television and stage adaptations\, such as a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney\, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton\, and a 1996 Disney animated film with Tom Hulce (both as Quasimodo). \nThe novel sought to preserve values of French culture in a time period of great change\, which resulted in the destruction of many French Gothic structures. The novel made Notre-Dame de Paris a national icon and served as a catalyst for renewed interest in the restoration of Gothic form. (Goodreads) \nClick here to join the meeting.
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SUMMARY:Let Us Descend
DESCRIPTION:Come and join friends around the world as we meet online for the monthly St. Paul’s Book Club! January’s book is Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward. \nLet Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery\, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching\, harrowing\, replete with transcendent love\, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. \nAnnis\, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her\, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march\, Annis turns inward\, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout\, she opens herself to a world beyond this world\, one teeming with of earth and water\, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give\, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent\, this\, her fourth novel\, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. \nFrom one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation\, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests\, swamps\, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet\, a masterwork for the ages. \nClick here to join the meeting.
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SUMMARY:The Refugee Ocean
DESCRIPTION:Come and join friends around the world as we meet online for the monthly St. Paul’s Book Club! November’s book is The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi. \nTwo refugees find that their lives are inextricably linked—over time and distance—by the perils of history and a single haunting piece of music. \nBorn in Beirut in 1922\, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family—and her society—hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance\, love transforms her life. Together with him\, she flees across the Pacific Ocean. She’s hoping for a new beginning. Instead\, she finds revolution and chaos. \nOver fifty years later\, Naïm Rahil is a teenage refugee from Aleppo\, Syria. A former piano prodigy who struggles to thrive in America—and who has lost part of his hand in the war—he dreams of a simple\, normal life. \nMoving from Aleppo on the brink of civil war\, to Lebanon in the late 1940s\, to Havana during the Cuban Revolution\, to the suburbs of Washington\, DC\, The Refugee Ocean grapples with what it means to be an immigrant\, shows how wounds can heal\, and highlights the role of music and art in the resilience of the human spirit. (Goodreads) \nClick here to join the meeting.
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