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Book Circle To Discuss “Maus 1,” A Graphic Novel About The Holocaust
The Book Circle has chosen a graphic novel as its selection for the Friday, May 17 meeting. The bookies will gather at 3 p.m. on Zoom for a look at Art Spiegleman’s Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History, a “brutally moving work of art,” Amazon says.
This is the bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust,” said The Wall Street Journal, and “the first masterpiece in comic book history,” according to The New Yorker.
Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as mice and Nazis as menacing cats. It is a story of survival, and a look at the legacy of trauma.
The Book Circle meets monthly to discuss books on Jewish topics and/or by Jewish writers.
For more information, email Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator, at ctigreenport@gmail.com/.
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The Postcard
by Anne Berest
Book Circle
Choice of the Month!
Thursday, April 25 at 3 PM
On CTI Zoom
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.
For more information about
The Book Circle
email ctigreenport@gmail.com
with a message for
Susan Rosenstreich.
In March Selection, Book Circle Follows The Displacement Of A Family
At its next meeting, to be held on Thursday, April 4 at 3 p.m., on Zoom, the Book Circle will consider a novel by Elizabeth Graver titled Kantika, a word translated from Ladino as “song.”
In this work, readers will meet Rebecca Cohen and her family as they traverse four countries that test their endurance to maintain the family dynamic.
The book group meets monthly to explore the writing of Jewish authors and/or Jewish themes. For more information, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.
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