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Join us for a book discussion of Erasure by Percival Everett.
Join us for our regular lunchtime book discussion Erasure by Percival Everett. Some physical copies are available. If you would like a copy from the book club bag, email Becky to request the book. Or you can request a copy with your library card via our online catalog: physical book, e-book, and e-audiobook via Overdrive and Hoopla.
Register and you'll get an email with instructions on how to participate via Zoom.
About the book
Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and writing.
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies-his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before.
In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins's bestseller. He doesn't intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is-under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh-and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.
Technology requirements: you'll need a device or a computer with an internet connection and Chrome browser, microphone and speakers to participate.
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Mon, Sep 02 | Closed |
Tue, Sep 03 | 9:00AM to 7:00PM |
Wed, Sep 04 | 9:00AM to 7:00PM |
Thu, Sep 05 | 9:00AM to 7:00PM |
Fri, Sep 06 | 10:00AM to 5:00PM |
Sat, Sep 07 | 10:00AM to 5:00PM |
Sun, Sep 08 | 12:00PM to 4:00PM |
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