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SUMMARY:Tuesday Afternoon Book Discussion
LOCATION:Chagrin Falls Branch\nChagrin Falls Branch
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DESCRIPTION:06/23 Happy Land\, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez\; 08/25 Free Lunch\
 , by Rex Ogle.\nhttps://cuyahoga.libnet.info/event/16012984
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Tuesday\, June 23rd\, 2PM: <em>Hap
 py Land</em>\, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez</strong></p>\n<p>A woman learns the
  astonishing truth of her family's ties to a real-life American kingdom in
  this transporting and riveting new novel from the New York Times bestsell
 ing\, NAACP Award-winning author of Take My Hand. In the hills of Appalach
 ia\, there once existed a land ruled by a king and a queen. Inspired by di
 stant memories of African kingdoms\, a community of formerly enslaved men 
 and women grasped freedom and started lives on mountain land that they own
 ed. They worked hard\, lived well\, and loved there. For a time the kingdo
 m thrived...and then it disappeared. Present Day. Nikki hasn't seen her gr
 andmother in years\, due to a mysterious estrangement inherited from her m
 other. So when the elder calls out of the blue with an urgent request for 
 Nikki to visit her in the hills of western North Carolina\, Nikki hesitate
 s only for a moment. After years of silence in her family\, she's determin
 ed to get answers while she still can. But instead of answers about the re
 cent past\, Mother Rita tells Nikki a shocking story about her great-great
 -great-grandmother Queen Luella and the very land they are standing on. La
 nd that Mother Rita says must be protected. The more Nikki learns about th
 e Kingdom of the Happy Land and the lives of those who dwelled in the ruin
 s she finds in the woods-who are buried beneath stone grave markers-the mo
 re she understands that sometimes\, atonement for the previous generations
 ' mistakes falls squarely on the shoulders of the descendants. And it's up
  to her to make things right.</p>\n<p><strong>July - NO MEETING</strong></
 p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday\, August 25th\, 2PM:&nbsp\; <em>Free Lunch</em>\, b
 y Rex Ogle<a href="https://discover.cuyahogalibrary.org/GroupedWork/b0544e
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 ></a></strong></p>\n<p>A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starti
 ng middle school on the free lunch program is timely\, heartbreaking\, and
  true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade
 . Rex and his baby brother often went hungry\, wore secondhand clothes\, a
 nd were short of school supplies\, and Rex was on his school's free lunch 
 program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation 
 of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line\, Rex's is a c
 ompelling story of a more profound hunger -- that of a child for his paren
 ts' love and care. Compulsively readable\, beautifully crafted\, and authe
 ntically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid\, Free L
 unch is a remarkable debut by a gifted storyteller.</p>\n<p>If you have an
 y questions\, please call the Chagrin Falls Branch at (440)247-3556.</p>\n
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