Magazine Jul-Aug 2018

LIBRARY

Book Club

Our Book Club will begin another program-year in August and we are always looking for additional members to join us! Get back in the swing of things and join other readers for a lively discussion of our selected titles.

Thursday, August 30 Adults' Library, Thinkspace 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Complimentary; light refreshments will be served

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Two teenagers in Lagos, Nigeria fall in love amid a backdrop of strict military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America where she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home – her race. Obinze, her childhood sweetheart, had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?

This book is available at the Club Library, Kinokuniya, the National Library and Amazon.

For more information or to register, please call 6739-4308 or email library@amclub.org.sg.

Book List for 2018/19 Get a head start on our Book Club titles for the year!

The Book Club’s Favorite Title of 2017/18 as voted by our members was A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

September - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

October - We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter November - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes January - Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson February - Winter by Ali Smith March - The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra April - The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer May - Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

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THE AMERICAN CLUB JUL / AUG 2018