This is a hybrid event and will be hosted in-person in the Community Meeting Room at West Hollywood Library as well as on Zoom. Please register at the link below to receive the link to the m eeting via email.
\nhttps://library-lacounty-gov.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcO ivqzwpGNDyGiDsipuoB54noYxGsxYg
\nCo-sponsored by the City of Wes t Hollywood Women's Advisory Board\, Women and Books Book Club meets on th e first Tuesday of the month to discuss literary works by and focused on w omen.
\nPlease contact the library to borrow a print copy of the boo k. eBook and downloadable audiobook are ava ilable through Libby app/OverDrive.
\nSummary provided by the publisher:
\nOne summer night\, Lou isa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later\, Louisa is found on the beach\, soaked to the skin\, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.
\nLouisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from t he past. Her father\, Serk\, is Korean\, but was born and raised in Japan\ ; he lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of post war Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother\, Anne\, i s estranged from her family. But now it is just Anne and Louisa\, adrift a nd facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of catastrophe. Unit ed\, separated\, and also repelled by their mutual grief\, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really hap pened to Louisa's father?
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