Brown Bag Books

Brown Bag Books

When

04/02/2019    
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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The Brown Bag Books group meets year-round, except in July and August. Many attendees bring their lunches, and everyone brings a sense of humor. Monthly sessions are always lively and enjoyable.

Books chosen by the group for discussion are usually listed in the Order of Service and the Bulletin, as well as on the UUCPA website.

 

Contact:           Hannah Slocum (hannah_s@uucpa.org)

Facilitator:       Various participants

Registration:   Not required

 

Brown Bag Books – Pachinko

When

04/02/2019    
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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The April book selection is Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (fiction).

In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant–and that her lover is married–she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son’s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan’s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee’s complex and passionate characters–strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis–survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history” (Amazon)  Please join us on April 2nd at noon in the Fireside Room to discuss this NYT bestseller and National Book Award finalist.

 

The Brown Bag Books group meets year-round, except in July and August. Many attendees bring their lunches, and everyone brings a sense of humor. Monthly sessions are always lively and enjoyable.

Books chosen by the group for discussion are usually listed in the Order of Service and the Bulletin, as well as on the UUCPA website.

Contact:           Hannah Slocum (hannah_s@uucpa.org)

Facilitator:       Various participants

Registration:   Not required