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Adult Book Club: Children's Literature

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
2024-08-08 19:00:00 2024-08-08 20:30:00 America/New_York Adult Book Club: Children's Literature Discuss children's books from an adult's perspective. Gum Spring Library - Meeting Room C

Thursday, August 08
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-08-08 19:00:00 2024-08-08 20:30:00 America/New_York Adult Book Club: Children's Literature Discuss children's books from an adult's perspective. Gum Spring Library - Meeting Room C

Gum Spring Library

Meeting Room C

Discuss children's books from an adult's perspective.

Discuss They Called Us Enemy by George Takei.

Actor and activist George Takei’s firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.

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AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Books/Authors |

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