August 16, 2018
As Summer Ends...
...Book Club begins again! We're here to help you refresh or restart your group's reading with four brand-new titles. Looking for a funny memoir? Look no further than Trevor Noah's hilarious and affecting Born a Crime. How about a quirky novel about the families people choose? Try Anne Tyler's Clock Dance. Enjoy exploring other cultures through fiction? We've got you covered with Tommy Orange's debut novel There There. Want to read that hot historical fiction people can't stop talking about? Check out We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter! Read on to learn more about our new additions and other book club resources!
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by 5 years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist.


Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments in her life. At each of them, she ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son’s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the-moment decision to help this women—and her dog…and her nine-year-old daughter—will lead Willa into uncharted territory.


There There by Tommy Orange
The story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to honor his memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube. There will be glorious communion, a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry; there will also be sacrifice, heroism, and unspeakable loss.


We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
It’s the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romances, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown in Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each trying desperately to navigate their own path to safety. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere.

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