October Book Club Meeting
Schedule
Thu Oct 17 2024 at 03:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
102 W Beardsley Ave, Elkhart, IN 46514-2753, United States | Elkhart, IN
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Join us for Ruthmere's next Book Club meeting!The October fiction book is "The Island of Sea Women" by Lisa See. The meeting to discuss this book will be at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 17th at the Havilah Beardsley House.
SYNOPSIS:
"Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Sea Women follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls from very different backgrounds, as they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective. Over many decades—through the Japanese colonialism of the 1930s and 1940s, World War II, the Korean War, and the era of cellphones and wet suits for the women divers—Mi-ja and Young-sook develop the closest of bonds. Nevertheless, their differences are impossible to ignore: Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator, forever marking her, and Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers. After hundreds of dives and years of friendship, forces outside their control will push their relationship to the breaking point."
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Contact Andrea Hutslar at [email protected] if you are interested in joining the meeting. New history-focused readers welcome!
The Ruthmere Book Club meets the third Thursday of each month. Books are selected annually, alternating between fiction and non-fiction. Books are usually available through the Elkhart Public Library system. Book Club membership is FREE.
For a list of all 2024 books, visit https://ruthmere.org/Book-Club/
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Where is it happening?
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