Book Club Selections
Malcolm Adult Book Chat
We will be discussing
"Peace Like a River" by Leif Enger. Young narrator Reuben tells how his father rescued his brother Davy's girlfriend from two attackers. This led to Davy being jailed for murder, and once Davy escapes and heads south for the Badlands of North Dakota, 12-year-old Reuben, his younger sister Swede and their janitor father light out after him. But the FBI is following Davy as well, and Reuben has a part to play in the finale of that chase, just as he had a part to play in his brother's trial.<br>
When: Monday June 9th, 2008
04:30 PM
Where: Program Room
,
Malcolm Library
Contact: Laurie Orton
at
702-263-7522
Malcolm Adult Book Chat
We will be discussing
"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, the novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of an immigrant family. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is an hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator's life in motion.<br>
When: Monday July 14th, 2008
04:30 PM
Where: Program Room
,
Malcolm Library
Contact: Laurie Orton
at
702-263-7522
Malcolm Adult Book Chat
We will be discussing
"Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson. One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.
When: Monday August 11th, 2008
04:30 PM
Where: Program Room
,
Malcolm Library
Contact: Laurie Orton
at
702-263-7522