Welcoming Gainesville and Alachua County, partners with the Millhopper Branch to provide a book club with a focus on the experience of immigrants and refugees. Come discuss this month's selection.
The Immigrant Voices reading venture invites the Gainesville community to read and reflect together, to enlarge our understanding and embrace the people who are new to the United States.
The book club will use "Immigrant Voices: 21st century stories" published by the Great Books Foundation. Don Smith will be leading the book club discussions.
The eighteen stories collected in "Immigrant Voices" highlight the complex relationships of immigrants in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century with their families, friends, new surroundings, and home countries. The authors themselves have made many of the same kinds of transitions as the characters they portray, and they offer fresh perspectives on the immigrant experience. Coedited by award-winning author Achy Obejas and cultural studies scholar Megan Bayles, this anthology addresses the perennial questions about society and the individual that the authors of the Great Books have pondered for centuries.
Learn more about Welcoming Gainesville & Alachua County at: welcominggainesville.org
Library Contact: Beth Noll, bnoll@aclib.us, 352-334-1272
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