Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library recently issued the following announcement.
The YA Book Club meets on the 4th Friday of every month to discuss a new book. Pick up a copy of this month's book from the Downtown Library Information Desk. Email libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call 928-213-2331 for additional information.
Due higher numbers in COVID-19 this program has moved back to virtual for the foreseable future.
Join us on zoom here!
This month we are reading:
Home Is Not a Country
by Safia Elhillo (Goodreads Author)
A mesmerizing novel in verse about family, identity, and finding yourself in the most unexpected places--for fans of The Poet X, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, and Jason Reynolds.
Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself.Until she doesn't.
As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen, the name her parents didn't give her at birth: Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might just be more real than Nima knows. And more hungry.And the life Nima has, the one she keeps wishing were someone else's. . .she might have to fight for it with a fierceness she never knew she had.
Date: Friday, January 28, 2022
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Original source can be found here.
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