If you enjoy reading and would like to share your thoughts with others in an online setting, the Pleasanton Library Online Book Club is for you!
Join us for our (virtual) discussion:
Date: Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Book: "The Henna Artist" by Alka Joshi
Register on the Events page of the Library catalog or contact Susan Dickinson at SDickinson@cityofpleasantonca.gov for more information.
Summary:
Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist-and confidante-to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own...
Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation and her livelihood. As she pursues her dream of an independent life, she is startled one day when she is confronted by her husband, who has tracked her down these many years later with a high-spirited young girl in tow--a sister Lakshmi never knew she had. Suddenly the caution that she has carefully cultivated as protection is threatened. Still she perseveres, applying her talents and lifting up those that surround her as she does.
(For readers 18 and up)
2022 Book Club Selections
January: "Group" by Christie Tate
February: "Lakewood" by Megan Giddings
March: "Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
April: "Dancing in the Mosque" by Homeira Qaderi
May: "The Widows of Malabar Hill" by Sujata Massey
June: "Harry's Trees" by Jon Cohen
July: "The Salt Path" by Raynor Winn
August: "The Henna Artist" by Alka Joshi
September: "The President and the Frog" by Carolina de Robertis
October: "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
November: "The Invisible Life of Addie Larue" by V. E. Schwab
December: "West With Giraffes" by Lynda Rutledge
2021 Book Club Selections
January: "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande
February: "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
March: "Educated" by Tara Westover
April: "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" by Olga Tokarczuk
May: "If I Had Your Face" by Frances Cha
June: "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett
July: "Last Train to London" by Meg Waite Clayton
August: "A Piece of the World" by Christina Baker Kline
September: "Fruit of the Drunken Tree" by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
October: "Love and Ruin" by Paula McLain
November: "Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman
December: "Miss Benson's Beetle" by Rachel Joyce
2020 Book Club Selections
April: "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" by Kim Michele Richardson
May: "Lady Clementine" by Marie Benedict
June: "American Fire: Love, Arson and Life in a Vanishing Land" by Monica Hesse
July: "Searching for Sylvie Lee" by Jean Kwok
August: "The Lager Queen of Minnesota" by J. Ryan Stradal
September: "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
October: "To Keep the Sun Alive" by Rabeah Ghaffari
November: "The Five" by Hallie Rubenhold
December: "Virgil Wander" by Leif Enger
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