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Community-Led Book Discussion: "What Storm, What Thunder" by Myrian J.A. Chancy

Held in the Small Meeting Room

2024-10-08 14:00:00 2024-10-08 15:30:00 America/New_York Community-Led Book Discussion: "What Storm, What Thunder" by Myrian J.A. Chancy Join a lively discussion! This month we are discussing Maryland One Book: "What Storm, What Thunder" by Myrian J.A. Chaney. Oxon Hill -

Tuesday, October 08
2:00pm - 3:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-10-08 14:00:00 2024-10-08 15:30:00 America/New_York Community-Led Book Discussion: "What Storm, What Thunder" by Myrian J.A. Chancy Join a lively discussion! This month we are discussing Maryland One Book: "What Storm, What Thunder" by Myrian J.A. Chaney. Oxon Hill -

Join a lively discussion! This month we are discussing Maryland One Book: "What Storm, What Thunder" by Myrian J.A. Chaney.

"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. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker, Leopold, who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner, Dieudonné, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband, Olivier, an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son, Jonas, who haunts them both; and Ma Lou, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Artfully weaving together these lives, witness is given to the desolation wreaked by nature and by man."

—From Catalog.


Borrow the book from PGCMLS: Print | eBook | eAudiobook

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | One Maryland One Book | Discussions |

TAGS: | One Maryland One Book | Book Discussion |

Oxon Hill

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