BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:LA County Library X-WR-CALNAME:LA County Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e762aa56-1bdd-479d-886e-21ece889757d SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260812T192940Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T183000 SUMMARY:Book Club for Adults LOCATION:San Fernando Library\nSan Fernando Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=San Fernando Library;X-APP LE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=San Fernando Library:geo:34.2856189,-118.4385982 GEO:34.2856189;-118.4385982 DESCRIPTION:In honor of Asian America\, Native Hawaiian\, and Pacific Isla nder Heritage Month\, we're reading 'Daughters of Shandong' by Eve J. C hung. Copies of the current title are available at the Information Desk.\n New members are always welcome! For adults..\nhttps://lacountylibrary.l ibnet.info/event/16192589 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

A propulsive\, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist rev olution sweeps through China. In 1948\, civil war ravages the Chinese coun tryside\, but in rural Shandong\, the wealthy\, landowning Angs are more c oncerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and s pends her days looking after her sisters. Headstrong Di\, who is just a ye ar younger\, learns to hide in plain sight\, and their mother--abused by t he family for failing to birth a boy--finds her own small acts of rebellio n in the kitchen. As the Communist army closes in on their town\, the rest of the prosperous household flees\, leaving behind the girls and their mo ther. But with the loss of their home and the life they've known also come s new freedom--to take hold of their fate\, to shake free of the bonds of their gender\, and to claim their own story. \;

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