The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Community Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Dyer Memorial Library, Upper Campus.
The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Community Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Dyer Memorial Library, Upper Campus.
Community Book 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 “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr. The book has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Marie-Laure LeBlanc lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks. When she is 6, she goes blind, and when the Germans occupy Paris in June 1940, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast.
In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner Pfennig, grows up to become a highly specialized military tracker of the Resistance.
Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure’s.
For more information about the book club’s meeting, contact Jaime Johnson at jjohnson@hpa.edu.