- Book Discussion 2: (Virtual) Erasure by Percival EverettLink visible for attendees
This December Book Discussion 2 will be on the third Thursday, December 19, 2024, due to the winter break season.
Our December book read is: Erasure by Percival Everett
If you'd like to attend in person rather than on Zoom, look for the in person meetup with the same book title.
Announcement:
- Last day for Book Recommendations.
- Look out for the POLL To OPEN: The POLL WILL BE RELEASED NO LATER THAN January 10, 2024.
- Check your Email for the poll link & Please vote.
- The email with the poll link most likely will come from our Meet Up email address:
[email protected] - The poll will end the weekend of March 1st, 2025.
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Notes for leader: Read & Erase/ then complete :-)The movie version was released last year and is available to stream. If you've seen it, it will be fun to compare and contrast.
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies―his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before.
- Book discussion 1: (in person) The Berry Pickers by Amanda PetersPalermo Italian Restaurant, San Jose, CA
Our January book read is: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Announcement:
- Look out for the POLL To OPEN:
- Check your Email for the poll link & Please vote.
- It most likely will come from our Meet Up email address:
[email protected] - The poll will end the weekend of March 1st, 2025.
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Notes for leader: Read & Erase/ then complete :-)A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years
July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective.
Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
For fans of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time. - Book Discussion 2: (Virtual) The Berry Pickers by Amanda PetersLink visible for attendees
Our January book read is: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Announcement:
- Look out for the POLL To OPEN:
- Check your Email for the poll link & Please vote.
- It most likely will come from our Meet Up email address:
[email protected] - The poll will end the weekend of March 1st, 2025.
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Notes for leader: Read & Erase/ then complete :-)A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years
July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective.
Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
For fans of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.
