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Staff Picks Book Discussion

2023-10-23 17:00:00 2023-10-23 18:00:00 America/Phoenix Staff Picks Book Discussion Mustang Library - Book Discussion Room

Monday, October 23
5:00pm - 6:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-10-23 17:00:00 2023-10-23 18:00:00 America/Phoenix Staff Picks Book Discussion Mustang Library - Book Discussion Room

Mustang Library

Book Discussion Room

Join us each month for a lively conversation centered on titles selected by staff within a variety of genres.

In this group we will discuss Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation.

Mustang Library

Phone: 480-312-7323

Opening hours
We're closed Friday July 04 due to Independence Day
Mon, Jun 30 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Tue, Jul 01 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Wed, Jul 02 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Thu, Jul 03 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Fri, Jul 04 Closed
(Independence Day)
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Sun, Jul 06 1:00PM to 5:00PM

Address
10101 North 90th Street
Scottsdale
, AZ 85258
Tel: 480-312-7323

About the library

Opened June 13, 1987

31,850 square feet

35 public-use computers

Drive-up window service

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