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When Hortense, a Black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, she doesn't expect that it will lead her to Cyn...
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When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption...
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Nov 26, 7:00pm
Regent Place Branch
Engage in a discussion about The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller. New book club members are always welcome! Books and snacks provided.
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The is an in-person program. No registration is required.
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller.
"A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision. With its transporting setting and propulsive pace, the story draws on the sweet promise of young love, as well as the heartbreaking damage incurred by too many secrets. It's a compulsively readable story about the tensions between the romantic childhood ideals we grow up with, and the family responsibilities that carry us into adulthood. Must our life choices remain irrevocable if the conditions are changed? It is a perfect July morning, and...
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