[MD-Sligo] Announcing Sligo Creek Book Club Meeting Date and Time to discuss "Hollow Fires"

[Jeff Baer]

Dear Sligo Creek Book Club Members and all Sligo Creek Chapter Members,
The Sligo Creek Book Club will be meeting virtually on Saturday, September 16, at 1:30 pm to discuss the book "Hollow Fires" by Samira Ahmed. Full book details are below and there is still plenty of time for you to start reading the book and join us if you are interested. I already know that we will have a pretty large discussion group that day! Any other Sligo Creek members who would like to join us should RSVP to me and I will then know to send them the meeting's call-in information. Everyone who has previously participated in the book club will automatically receive the meeting details from me, unless they contact me to opt out. I just finished listening to "Hollow Fires" and I can tell it will be a lively and interesting discussion!
Best wishes to all, and please let me know if you have any questions,
-Jeff Baer  jabaer811 at outlook.com
Cell phone: (410)499-0143
Book details:

"Hollow Fires", written by Samira Ahmed, BARD ID = DB108627. Duration = 10 hours and 10 minutes.

It is also available via Amazon's Audible subscription service in addition to BARD/ NLS.

Good Reads Description: "A powerful, gripping Young Adult fiction novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths, and the undeniable power of hope. Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she’s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist’s job is to find the facts and not let personal biases affect the story. But all that changes the day she finds the body of a murdered boy.

Jawad Ali was fourteen years old when he built a cosplay jetpack that a teacher mistook for a bomb. A jetpack that got him arrested, labeled a terrorist—and eventually killed. But he’s more than a dead body, and more than “Bomb Boy.” He was a person with a life worth remembering.

Driven by Jawad’s haunting voice guiding her throughout her investigation, Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him because of their hate-based beliefs.

This gripping and powerful book uses an innovative format and lyrical prose to expose the evil that exists in front of us, and the silent complicity of the privileged who create alternative facts to bend the truth to their liking."

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