Please join us on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 7PM to discuss Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marguez. This discussion will be held via Zoom. Contact Krista for details.
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As we started our discussion last evening, everyone agreed that this is a well written book and that the author presented the story with no biases. It took her over 15 years from conception to completion because this is a big story. The family chronicled in the book were truly divided. Three sons who fought on both sides, but all were born in America. One went to an internment camp, and the other two returned to Japan and became soldiers. Through it all the mother keeps going, and adjusts to what life offers her. With so much going on in our world now, the inevitable comparison with current events was made, and how deplorable these events are. But imagine what people in the internment camps must have felt. To have everything taken from you, moved far from the familiar, and then later released with now real acknowledgement of what was suffered has happened throughout history. Could it be stopped? Can we stop it? History will tell.
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