I have 3 books for book club to consider for the new year. Please choose your top 2 and we will vote at our meeting on Monday night!
The Beauty of Humanity Movement (fiction)
author: Camilla Gibb
“Set in contemporary Vietnam, this is the story of a country undergoing momentous change, a story that transforms our notions of how family is defined – not always by bloodlines, but by the heart. Tu’ is a young tour guide working in Hanoi for a company called New Dawn, but when he leads tourists through his city, including American veterans on “war tours,” he starts to wonder what it is they are seeing of Vietnam – and what they miss entirely. Maggie, who has lived most of her life in the U.S., has returned to the country in search of clues to her dissident father’s disappearance during the war.”
~From the Doubleday Canada hardcover edition
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (non-fiction)
author: William Kamkwamba
“Forced to drop out of school when famine hits his village-which has no electricity or running water-a Malawi boy tinkers with scrap metal and builds a windmill that lights a few bulbs and catches the world’s attention.”
~Description from the St. Albert Public Library catalogue
The Right of Thirst (fiction)
author: Frank Huyler
“Shattered by his wife’s death, and by his own role in it, successful cardiologist Charles Anderson volunteers to assist with earthquake relief in an impoverished Islamic country in a constant state of conflict with its neighbour. But when the refugees he’s come to help do not appear and artillery begins to fall in the distance along the border, the story takes an unexpected turn.”
~From the Harper Perennial paperback edition
