This is a hybrid event and will be hosted in-person in the West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room as well as on Zoom. Please contact the library to borrow a print copy of the book. Re gister at the link below to receive the link to the meeting via email.
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\nWest Hollywood Library's LGBTQ+ Book Club meets on t he last Tuesday of the month to discuss literary works of relevance and in terest to the LGBTQ+ community.
\nSummary provided by the publisher:
\nIn the 1950s\, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secur e a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism\, Norman and his family are resilient\, but are all too aware that their family wil l need more than just hope to survive in their new country.
\nAt the turn of the millennium\, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London\, escaping a broken immediate family\, a repressive religious community and his depres sed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives\, he fin ds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity\, and turns to sex work\, music and art to create his own notions of love\, masculinity and spiritu ality.
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