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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, July 26 at 10:00am in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! \nWe will be discussing Dana Vowinckel’s: Misophonia \nJOIN ZOOM MEETING \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/87690820162?pwd=pHsE7lgt1UjO293yQ5VUjrJlvJ3QMj.1  \nMeeting ID: 876 9082 0162 \nPassword: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS \nIn the vein of Fleishman is in Trouble and Elif Batuman—an insightful\, heartfelt\, and hilarious debut coming of age novel exploring cultural diaspora through one teenager’s summer across Berlin\, Jerusalem\, and Chicago \nIt’s another scorching summer in Chicago\, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as usual\, under the not-so-watchful eyes of her aging maternal grandparents. All told\, the plucky teen in this compelling family drama would much rather be at home in Germany\, exploring Berlin with her best friend\, Anna\, or with Avi\, her doting Israeli father\, a cantor at their local synagogue with whom she has shared a special bond ever since her mother\, Marsha\, abandoned the family. Instead\, she’s stuck halfway around the world\, homesick and tortured by the sound of her grandparents’ chewing. \nBut when arrangements are made behind her back for her to meet Marsha in Israel before returning to Germany\, Margarita is blindsided. She wants no part of this overdue reconciliation with a mother she hardly knows. When her mother fails to show\, however\, things go awry. Meanwhile\, in Germany\, Avi tries to fill the hole left by Margarita’s absence with a trip of his own\, embarking on a personal journey that highlights their deep father-daughter relationship\, both hope-inducing and despairing. \nExpertly straddling the two narratives of daughter and father\, Misophonia is a graceful work of literary fiction exploring the complexities of imperfect family relationships and larger cultural displacement. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n Dana Vowinckel was born in Berlin in 1996 into an American-Jewish-German family. She grew up bilingually and bi-culturally between Chicago and Berlin\, and studied linguistics and literature in Berlin\, Toulouse\, and Cambridge. Her debut novel Misophonia won\, amongst others\, the Mara Cassens Prize and the literature prize of the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy\, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize. She lives in Berlin.
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LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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