BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Reed Memorial Library X-WR-CALNAME:Reed Memorial Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e49a99d7-476e-4bc3-a514-606e5314f182 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260718T073216Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T153000 SUMMARY:World Literature Book Club LOCATION:Reed Memorial Library\nReed Memorial Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Reed Memorial Library;X-AP PLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Reed Memorial Library:geo:41.1580893,-81.2400633 GEO:41.1580893;-81.2400633 DESCRIPTION:Join us for Lescure's debut novel shortlisted for the 2024 Wom en's Literature Award. Copies of the book will be available one month in a dvance at the Circulation Desk. .\nhttps://reedlibrary.libnet.info/event/1 2082388 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

French-Chinese-American author Aube Rey Le scure's debut novel River East\, River West tells a reversal of t he east-west immigrant story that is set against China's economic boom. Th e novel follows two characters\, Alva\, a teenager in China raised by her American mother in Shanghai\, and LuFang\, the rich landlord of Alva and h er mother\, as they come of age in China. The story is told in alternating time frames: the 1980s in Qingdao\, the seaside town where a young newly married LuFang works in a lowly clerk position in a shipyard\, and 2007 in Shanghai\, where teenage Alva feels betrayed by her mother's marriage to their rich landlord LuFang and plots an escape. Lescure's novel explores r ace\, identity\, culture\, and capitalism's false promise and private drea ms. \; Limited to 15 participants.

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