The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Community Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Dyer Memorial Library in the school’s Upper Campus.
The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Community Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Dyer Memorial Library in the school’s Upper Campus.
Club meetings are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served and participants are invited to bring a snack to share.
Lois Inman, Dyer Memorial librarian, and Jaime Johnson, Upper School English teacher, will lead the group. The current book selection is “Boy, Snow, Bird” by Helen Oyeyemi.
“Boy, Snow, Bird” was featured as an Amazon Best Book of the Month for March 2014.
“After escaping the cruel wrath of her abusive father, Boy Novak finds comfort in a small Massachusetts suburb and a widower named Arturo, whom she later marries,” reviewer Kevin Nguyen wrote. “Boy is quite taken with Arturo’s daughter, Snow, but it’s the daughter she has with Arturo that complicates their quiet lives — Bird’s birth reveals that both Arturo and Boy are light-skinned African-Americans passing for white.
“Harkening back to the great passing narratives, like Charles W. Chesnutt’s ‘The Marrow of Tradition’ and, most notably, ‘Passing’ by Nella Larsen, ‘Boy, Snow, Bird’ is about both the exterior and interior complexities of racial identity.”
For more information, contact Jaime Johnson at jjohnson@hpa.edu.