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Book Club Meeting: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

June 4, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The UHM LIS Diversity Council in partnership with the new Progressive Librarians Guild (UHM chapter) has started a new LIS community book club and the entire LIS community is invited to participate! You can read along even if you will be unable to attend the book club meetings, and you are still welcome to attend the book club meetings if you do not have time to read the books.

Our goal is twofold:

1. To use reading, books and discussion to foster the LIS community;
2. To use reading and books as prompts for discussion of pertinent issues related to diversity and social justice.

We will be meeting to discuss our second book (fiction this time), Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze 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? Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.”

The meeting will be in the East-West Center’s Japanese Garden.

Details

Date:
June 4, 2018
Time:
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Organizer

LIS Diversity Council
Email:
uhmdiversitycouncil@gmail.com
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