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SUMMARY:ATL Reads Virtual Book Club
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DESCRIPTION:This club meets monthly from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. For the mo
 nth of December\, we will discuss "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi.\n.\nhttps://gw
 innettpl.libnet.info/event/6579198
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="
 color: #ff9900\;"><strong>Free and open to all.</strong></span></p>\n<p st
 yle="text-align: center\;"><br /><span style="color: #ff9900\;"><strong>Re
 ad the book and chat with us!</strong></span></p>\n<p>Two half-sisters\, E
 ffia and Esi\, unknown to each other\, are born into two different tribal 
 villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English co
 lonial\, and will live in comfort in the sprawling\, palatial rooms of Cap
 e Coast Castle\, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be
  educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as admini
 strators of the Empire. Her sister\, Esi\, will be imprisoned beneath Effi
 a in the Castle's women's dungeon\, and then shipped off on a boat bound f
 or America\, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the trib
 al wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America\, from the coal mines
  in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem
 \, Yaa Gyasi has written a modern masterpiece\, a novel that moves through
  histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captur
 es the troubled spirit of our own nation.</p>\n<p><br />Yaa Gyasi was born
  in Ghana and grew up in Huntsville\, Alabama. She is a graduate of Stanfo
 rd University with a BA in English and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Works
 hop. Her debut novel\, <em>Homegoing</em>\, became a <em>New York Times</e
 m> bestseller. In 2016\, she was selected as one of the U.S. National Book
  Foundation's 'five under 35' new writers to watch.</p>\n<p style="text-al
 ign: center\;"><br /><span style="color: #993300\;"><strong>Registration i
 s required for online access. Registration closes at the start of the prog
 ram.&nbsp\;</strong></span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span sty
 le="color: #000000\;">(This month we are meeting on the second Tuesday of 
 the month due to the upcoming holidays.)&nbsp\;</span></p>\n<p style="text
 -align: center\;"><span style="color: #000000\;"><img src="https://gwinnet
 tpl.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/gwinnettpl/kuumba-storytellers-of-g
 eorgia-logo.png" width="150" height="28" alt="" /></span></p>\n<p style="t
 ext-align: center\;"><span style="color: #000000\;"><em>&nbsp\; Homegoing<
 /em> is the community read chosen by Kuumba Storytellers of Georgia for th
 e National Endowment of the Art's Big Read 2022-2023.&nbsp\;</span><span s
 tyle="color: #000000\;">For more information about the NEA Big Read Kuumba
  Storytellers visit&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.kuumbastorytellers.org">www.
 kuumbastorytellers.org.</a></span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><s
 pan style="color: #000000\;"><img src="https://gwinnettpl.libnet.info/fron
 tend-images/editor/gwinnettpl/NEA_Big_Read_logo.png" width="123" height="1
 45" alt="" />&nbsp\;</span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span sty
 le="color: #000000\;">NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment 
 for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. &nbsp\; &nbsp\;</span></p>\
 n<p style="text-align: left\;">*Adult Services</p>\nhttps://gwinnettpl.lib
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