“With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920,Continue reading “Live Event: Book Discussion “The Mountains Sing” by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai”
Monthly Archives: April 2020
LIVE EVENT: MYSTERY BOOK TALK “Please Pass the Guilt” – Rex Stout
Join us for a virtual book discussion via zoom of Rex Stouts novel “Please Pass the Guilt” “A bomb explodes in the desk drawer of a top TV executive. Was it intended for him or the man who opened the drawer? They each had enemies enough to die a dozen times over. Was it theContinue reading “LIVE EVENT: MYSTERY BOOK TALK “Please Pass the Guilt” – Rex Stout”
Sci Fic Book Talk VIA Zoom – Friday by Robert Heinlein
“Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as ‘Boss’. Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on shuttlecock assignment atContinue reading “Sci Fic Book Talk VIA Zoom – Friday by Robert Heinlein”
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