May Book Club Gathering - Double Feature! - Maui Country Club: Golf Tennis Fitness Family Food on Maui's North Shore

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When:

May 24, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

2022-05-24T17:00:00-10:00

2022-05-24T19:00:00-10:00

Where:

Maui Country Club
48 Nonohe Pl.
Paia
HI 96779

Cost:

Free

Contact:

Maui Country Club

808-877-7893

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Book Club Gathering
Tuesday, May 24 @ 5:00 p.m.

Join the MCC Book Club for a discussion on two books, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, and “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison.

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author’s own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character’s art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.

In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.”

This event is exclusively for the members of Maui Country Club. For information on joining the Club, visit the membership pages of this site.