Diverse Voices Book Club
Schedule
Wed Jun 05 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Onondaga Free Library | Syracuse, NY
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OFL has launched a book club, bringing together readers interested in discovering and discussing diverse literature.New members welcome each month. No obligation - participants may join in or opt out of any club meeting and discussions.
This month's selection: "There There" by Tommy Orange
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism
A book with “so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s a revelation” (The New York Times). It is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down–full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. "There There" is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.
ebook and audiobook available on Libby (https://libbyapp.com/search/onlib/search/query-there%20there/page-1).
Recommended for Adults | REGISTRATION REQUIRED-https://onlibonondagafree.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=13248&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2024/06/01
Registration opens the 20th of each month.
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Where is it happening?
Onondaga Free Library, 4840 W Seneca Tpke,Syracuse,NY,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
