April Book Club Meeting
Posted by chedger on April 3rd, 2008
| April 8, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The next book club meeting is on Tuesday April 8th. The club will be discussing the book Tailspin by Bernard Conners.
The book they will be picking up on Tuesday is The Pearl diver by Jeff Talarigo. A first novel of rare beauty and sensitivity, Jeff Talarigo’s The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. They will discuss this book at the May 13th meeting.