Senior Book Club: Real Americans

Name: Senior Book Club: Real Americans
Start: 2025-10-20T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-20T14:00:00-07:00
Location: Joe C Montoya Senior Center

Schedule

Mon Oct 20 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Joe C Montoya Senior Center | Flagstaff, AZ

Welcome!
The Senior Book Club meets the 3rd Monday of every month at the Joe C. Montoya Community and Senior Center, located at 245 N Thorpe Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001.
All books provided are large print books for easier reading.
If you need to check out the current book, call 928-213-2380 or email [email protected]. You can also stop by the library and get your book there.
Next meeting books will be available at the Joe C. Montoya Community Center to check out after the meeting. You can also return the previous book then.
This month we are reading:
Real Americans
by Rachel Khong

Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love.
In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than answers.
In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home.
Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made, and if so, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?