BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:DC Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:DC Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d6e42bb3-d71f-4315-8860-0ea9f5393ee4 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260726T233646Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260705T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260705T163000 SUMMARY:Georgetown Library Sunday Book Club LOCATION:Georgetown Neighborhood Library\nGeorgetown Neighborhood Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Georgetown Neighborhood Li brary;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Georgetown Neighborhood Library:geo:38.913 3814,-77.0660253 GEO:38.9133814;-77.0660253 DESCRIPTION:In July we'll discuss two classic American novellas: Of Mice a nd Men by John Steinbeck and Train Dreams by Denis Johnson..\nhttps://dcli brary.libnet.info/event/16719726 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

About the books:

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Of Mice and M en \;is a 1937 \;novella \;written by American author&nbs p\;John Steinbeck. It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lenni e Small\, two displaced \;migrant \;ranch \;workers\, as they move from place to place in \;California\, searching for jobs during t he \;Great Depression. \;Steinbeck based the novella on his own ex periences as a teenager working alongside migrant farm workers in the 1910 s\, before the arrival of the \;Okies \;whom he would describe in his novel \;The Grapes of Wrath. The title is taken from  \;Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse": "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry").  \;Of Mice and Men \;has been a frequent target of \; censorship \;and \;book bans \;for vulgarity and for what some consider offensive and racist language. Consequently\, it appears on the& nbsp\;American Library Association's list of the \;Most Challenged Boo ks of the 21st Century.

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Train Dreams \;is a \;nov ella \;by \;Denis Johnson published in book form in 2011. (It was originally published\, in slightly different form\, in the Summer 2002 iss ue of \;The Paris Review.) The novella details the life of Ro bert Grainier\, an American railroad laborer. Born in 1886\, orphaned by a ge six and placed with cousins\, he's not outwardly remarkable or compelli ng as the episodes of his life unfold. He marries Gladys and fathers Kate while working for a timber company\, and he witnesses disparate events and characters from influenza epidemics and the advent of automobiles and air planes to an unscheduled area stop by a young Elvis Presley. \;The nov ella won an \;O. Henry Award \;in 2003 and the 2002 \;Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. It was a finalist for the \;2012 \;Pulitzer Pr ize for Fiction\, but no award was given that year.

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