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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss August’s Book – Call it a Gift by Valerie Hubbs\nDo you enjoy reading and sharing your thoughts amongst your peers? Southgate Recreation & Park District offers an in-person or online gathering the 1st Tuesday of each month from 11AM – 12PM. Grab your copy of the month’s read that is up for discussion and join us! If meeting in person, we will provide light refreshments or you can bring your own snack. Plus, find out what this month’s reading title is! We will cover fiction and non-fiction books based on group suggestions, For more information or to pick up your copy of the book, please call (916) 526-0234.\nDownload flyer here\nSeptember’s Book: Mothers by Brit Bennett\n\nSet within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.\n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season.”\nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.\nIn entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.\n\nBook Club Monthly Reading Schedule \nSeptember – Mothers by Brit Bennett\nOctober – Violeta by Isabel Allende\nNovember – House of Cotton by Monica Brashears\nDecember – The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham\n
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