VIRTUAL: ATL Reads Virtual Book Club

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July 19, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm America/New York Timezone
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This club meets monthly on the third Tuesday from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. For the month of July, we will be discussing “What Storm, What Thunder” by Myriam J.A. Chancy.

Free and open to all.

Read the book and chat with us!

At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the many characters affected by the disaster. Artfully weaving together these lives, witness is given to the desolation wreaked by nature and by man.

Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and―at the same time―an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.

Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Haitian-Canadian-American writer, the HBA Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Registration is required for online access.

REGISTER: https://gwinnettpl.libnet.info/event/6110423