Readers’ Circle: “The Deep”

Join our long running book club, the Readers’ Circle, for our spring semester of reads.

This Spring enjoy and discuss Nautical Reads with us! Each tale takes place out on the open ocean. For a change of pace we will be reading from a broad selection of genres: non-fiction, magical realism, afrofuturism, and a tried and true classic! Discussions are held on the last Thursday of each month at 7 pm. Copies of each title are available at the library. Let us know if you need help finding a copy.

May’s title is The Deep by Rivers Solomon. From the catalog record, “Yetu holds the memories for her people — water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners — who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one — the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities — and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past — and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity — and own who they really are.”

Future titles this semester:

• February 27th @ 7pm: The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
• March 27th @ 7 pm: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• April 24th @ 7pm: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• May 29th @ 7pm: The Deep by Rivers Solomon

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Checkout a tote of books from one of our previous sessions and run your own book discussion!

Contact Courtney (ckleftis@yarmouthlibrary.org) for additional information.