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SUMMARY:Tales of Yesterday
LOCATION:Connie Morella Library\nConnie Morella Library
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Historical Fiction Book Club! This month's boo
 k is Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor..\nhttps://mcpl.libnet.info/event/17
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Travel back in time with our historical fi
 ction book club! From political intrigue to daring romances\, every month 
 we visit a different period in time. Join us this December for&nbsp\;Whale
  Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor.</p>\n<p>"In 1938\, a dead whale washes up on 
 the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod\, who has spent her whole lif
 e on the island\, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of wha
 t may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father
  and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother
  following the death of their own mother years prior)\, Manod can't shake 
 her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly h
 arsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations.
  The arrival of two English ethnographers who hope to study the island cul
 ture\, then\, feels like a boon to her--both a glimpse of life outside her
  community and a means of escape. The longer the ethnographers stay\, the 
 more she feels herself pulled towards them\, reckoning with a sensual awak
 ening inside herself\, despite her misgivings that her community is being 
 misconstrued and exoticized. With shimmering prose tempered by sharp wit\,
  Whale Fall tells the story of what happens when one person's ambitions th
 reaten the fabric of a community\, and what can happen when they are reali
 zed. O'Connor paints a portrait of a community and a woman on the precipic
 e\, forced to confront an outside world that seems to be closing in on the
 m"--Publisher description.</p>\n<p>Copies of the book can be picked up at 
 the front desk at the Connie Morella Library\, or you can&nbsp\;<a href="h
 ttps://mcpl.aspendiscovery.org/GroupedWork/fa669fc2-555c-0459-2ee2-d33d43c
 a2785-eng/Home?searchId=40232777&amp\;recordIndex=1&amp\;page=1&amp\;searc
 hSource=local&amp\;referred=resultIndex">borrow a&nbsp\;digital copy from 
 our&nbsp\;online collection&nbsp\;here</a>.</p>\n<p>Questions about this p
 rogram? Contact the branch&nbsp\;240-777-0970</p>\n<p>Don't have a card ri
 ght now?&nbsp\; No worries!&nbsp\; Find out how to&nbsp\;<a href="https://
 montgomerycountymd.gov/library/services/card.html">Get a Library Card</a>.
 </p>\n<p>Accommodation Requests</p>\n<p>People who are Deaf or Hard of Hea
 ring should request&nbsp\;<a href="https://montgomerycountymd.gov/Library/
 accessibility/interpreter.html">English-language captioning or sign-langua
 ge interpretation</a>&nbsp\;at least five days before the library-sponsore
 d program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Access
 ibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation reque
 sts.</p>\nhttps://mcpl.libnet.info/event/17684790
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