Summer Reading Soiree featuring Claire Messud
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The author discusses her book "This Strange Eventful History" in conversation with Amy Jo Burns at this annual gathering of book lovers featuring refreshments, door prizes and more.
A popular Princeton Public Library tradition since 2016, the annual Summer Reading Soirée features sparkling beverages, sorbet and other sweets as well as door prizes and giveaways. Attendees will mix and mingle with library staff and other area book lovers, share what they have been reading and discover titles they may want to read this summer. This year's soirée is also a chance to stroll the grounds of Morven Museum and Garden.
Registration is requested for this FREE EVENT. Space is limited to 125 people and this is a popular event! https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/13941245
About the book: Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. "This Strange Eventful History," told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family’s strangeness; of François’s union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace.
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A popular Princeton Public Library tradition since 2016, the annual Summer Reading Soirée features sparkling beverages, sorbet and other sweets as well as door prizes and giveaways. Attendees will mix and mingle with library staff and other area book lovers, share what they have been reading and discover titles they may want to read this summer. This year's soirée is also a chance to stroll the grounds of Morven Museum and Garden.
Registration is requested for this FREE EVENT. Space is limited to 125 people and this is a popular event! https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/13941245
About the book: Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. "This Strange Eventful History," told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family’s strangeness; of François’s union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace.
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