We begin with some conversation starters s o you can get to know fellow attendees.
\nThen our expert staff guid es a lively discussion about thoughtfully selected titles&mdash\;from clas sics to new releases. Bring your enthusiasm and love of reading\, even if you don't get a chance to finish this month's title.
\nRegister for one session to get a taste\, then sign up every month to deepen your conne ction to reading and fellow book lovers. View all the BPL Book Club titles for this year< /p>\n
Here's what we're reading this month Our Missing Hearts \;by Ce leste Ng
\nTwelve-year-old Bi rd Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father\, a f ormer linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows t o not ask too many questions\, stand out too much\, or stray too far. For a decade\, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve &ldq uo\;American culture&rdquo\; in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity\, the authorities a re now allowed to relocate children of dissidents\, especially those of As ian origin\, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatr iotic - including the work of Bird&rsquo\;s mother\, Margaret\, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.
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