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Book Discussion: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Talk with Carolyn Murphey Melchers, d.a.i. Tübingen. Calling all book lovers! You like reading books and discussing them afterwards? Join the Book Discussion and discover the riches of American literature. American literature specialist and writer Carolyn Murphey Melchers will guide you through the best of contemporary and classic American literature. Copies of the selected books are available in the d.a.i. library.

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin tells the story of a teenage boy who is questioning his religious identity and relationship with his violent stepfather.

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell tells a fictionalized story of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes and the death of their son Hamnet. Deacon King Kong: In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters – caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York – overlap in unexpected ways.

In The Warmth of Other Suns, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decadeslong migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life.

In English

Join for free via Zoom @ www.dai-tuebingen.de/books

Further dates: Fr. 11.6. James McBride - Deacon King Kong (2021), Fr. 9.7. Isabel Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns, The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2011)

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