It’s difficult to meet in person right now, but SPL has thought of a way to help keep your mind active while we’re all social distancing: an at-home Book Club! The discussion will be in April, but book kits will be available starting in the first half of March.
Register for a spot (eight spots are open), and the next time you stop by the library, you’ll be given a book and packet to keep. You can then join in via the SPL Adult Book Club on the library’s Facebook and discuss it with us from the comfort of your own home! This time our discussion will be open April 20-21. Facebook not your thing? Fill out and return the book review sheet in your Book Club packet and we’ll display it at the library so others can decide if they’d like to read the book! Contact the library online or give us a call to register. Book Club packets can be picked up at the front desk or via contactless curbside service.
April’s book club choice is Americanah by Chima-manda Ngozi Adichie. “Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and re-ignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland,” (Americanah, 2014). Register for a spot in the book club and pick up your free copy today!