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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, August 27 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom!\nWe will be discussing Colum McCann’s: Apeirogon \nJoin Zoom Meeting  \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81357982871?pwd=d1ovTmlaRDlhamgrYlV0QWFPTFd2QT09  \nMeeting ID: 813 5798 2871 \nPasscode: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS \nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories\, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”—Kamila Shamsie\, author of Home Fire\n \nFINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent • The New York Public Library • Library Journal \nFrom the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers. \nBassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives\, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints\, both physical and emotional\, they must negotiate. \nBut their lives\, however circumscribed\, are upended one after the other: first\, Rami’s thirteen-year-old daughter\, Smadar\, becomes the victim of suicide bombers; a decade later\, Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter\, Abir\, is killed by a rubber bullet. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. And yet\, when they learn of each other’s stories\, they recognize the loss that connects them. Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace—and with their one small act\, start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict. \nThis extraordinary novel is the fruit of a seed planted when the novelist Colum McCann met the real Bassam and Rami on a trip with the non-profit organization Narrative 4. McCann was moved by their willingness to share their stories with the world\, by their hope that if they could see themselves in one another\, perhaps others could too. \nWith their blessing\, and unprecedented access to their families\, lives\, and personal recollections\, McCann began to craft Apeirogon\, which uses their real-life stories to begin another—one that crosses centuries and continents\, stitching together time\, art\, history\, nature\, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. The result is an ambitious novel\, crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material\, with these fathers’ moving story at its heart. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic\, Let the Great World Spin\, Zoli\, Dancer\, This Side of Brightness\, and Songdogs\, as well as three critically acclaimed story collections and the nonfiction book Letters to a Young Writer. His fiction has been published in over forty languages. He has received many international honors\, including the National Book Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, a Guggenheim fellowship\, the Pushcart Prize\, and an Oscar nomination for his short film Everything in This Country Must. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, as well as the Irish association of artists Aosdána\, and he has also received a Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres award from the French government. In addition\, he has won awards in Italy\, Germany\, and China. A contributor to The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Paris Review\, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program. He lives with his family in New York City\, where he is the cofounder of the global nonprofit story exchange organization Narrative 4.
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