Millhopper Book Club

This month we will be meeting on the second Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 1 p.m. In November, in correlation with Native American Heritage Month, we will be discussing, “Wandering Stars” by Tommy Orange.

Since Election Day is on the first Tuesday of November and the library is a voting precinct, we will be meeting on the second Tuesday of the month at 1 p.m. When we meet, we start by sharing books we’ve read recently, then discuss that month’s book. You do not have to read the book to attend the meeting.

In November, in correlation with Native American Heritage Month, we'll be discussing Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange. "Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre.” Description provided by the publisher

Event Contact: Beth Noll, bnoll@aclib.us

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