Come join the Daytime Book Club as we discuss this month's book! New members are always welcome (we love meeting new people!). Registration is appreciated but not required.

This month we will be discussing Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. The description for the book is below:

"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation."

This month we will be meeting inside the Meeting Room at the East Regional Library.

We look forward to seeing you all soon!

Want to read ahead? Take a look at our upcoming reads:

August 9th, 2023: Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain

September 13th, 2023: The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade

October 11th, 2023: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

November 8th, 2023: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

December 13th, 2023: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

January 10th, 2024: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Rui Zafón

February 14th, 2024: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

March 13th, 2024: The Storied Life of A.J. Finkry Gabrielle Zevin

April 10th, 2024: Solito by Javier Zamora