[nfbwatlk] FW: [wtbbl] WTBBL Brown Bag Book Club is coming on March 8th!

[Jacob Struiksma]

The next quarterly WTBBL Brown Bag Book Club meeting at the library is
scheduled for Thursday, March 8th at noon. The discussion will be led by our
book recording services supervisor Theresa.

 

This quarter's book selection is Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel, When
the Emperor Was Divine. The author uses a single family to evoke the
physical and emotional uprooting of Japanese Americans being sent to
internment camps during World War II. 

 

In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view -
the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train
ride to the camp; the son in the desert encampment; the family's return to
their home; and the bitter release of the father after more than four years
in captivity - Otsuka creates a small tour de force, a novel of unrelenting
economy and suppressed emotion. When the Emperor Was Divine is a haunting
evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our
times. 

 

The book is available to WTBBL patrons as a talking book on cassette (RC
58157) and digital download (DB58157), and in braille (BRW1113). It is also
available in large and standard print in many public libraries.

 

 

 

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