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Germantown Novel Views Book Club - In Person

What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy

2024-12-04 19:00:00 2024-12-04 20:00:00 America/New_York Germantown Novel Views Book Club - In Person Join the Germantown Novel Views Book Club to discuss the One Maryland One Book Selection "What Storm, What Thunder" by Myriam J.A. Chancy. Germantown Library -

Wednesday, December 04
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-12-04 19:00:00 2024-12-04 20:00:00 America/New_York Germantown Novel Views Book Club - In Person Join the Germantown Novel Views Book Club to discuss the One Maryland One Book Selection "What Storm, What Thunder" by Myriam J.A. Chancy. Germantown Library -

Join the Germantown Novel Views Book Club to discuss the One Maryland One Book Selection "What Storm, What Thunder" by Myriam J.A. Chancy.

The Novel Views Book Club will meet in Meeting Room A, located on the lower level of the library. 

"At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker, Leopold, who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner, Dieudonné, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband, Olivier, an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son, Jonas, who haunts them both; and Ma Lou, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Artfully weaving together these lives, witness is given to the desolation wreaked by nature and by man. Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and--at the same time--an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit." -- MCPL Catalogue.

Print copies may be available at the Germantown Library after November 6, 2024.

Available on Overdrive/Libby as an eBook: https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/6434758 and as an Audio ebook: https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/6838672 

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Questions about this program? Contact the branch at 240-777-0110

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

GEN 1.0 10/27/2021

AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Lectures and Discussions |

TAGS: | Indoor Program |

Germantown Library

Phone: 240-777-0110

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