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Solidarity Stories: "Cinema Love"

Join the Mount Rainier Branch Library and Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights for our monthly book club! This month we will discuss "Cinema Love" by Jiaming Tang.

A staggering epic about men and women who find themselves in forbidden relationships, the weight of secrets, and the persistence of memory. Spanning decades, from post-socialist China to contemporary New York, "Cinema Love" is a tour de force about gay men and the women who marry them. Thirty years ago, in rural Fuzhou, Old Second and his wife Bao Mei frequented the Workers’ Cinema: a rundown theater where gay men cruised for love. While classic war films played, Old Second found intimacy with closeted men in the screening rooms. In the box office, Bao Mei sold movie tickets, guarding the secrets of the cinema and even finding her own happiness with the projectionist. But once Old Second’s passionate affair with his male lover was exposed, a series of haunting events unfolded, propelling these characters toward an uncertain future in America. A tender novel of love, care, and survival, The New Yorker says "Cinema Love" is “Part ghost story, part love story, and part tale of hardscrabble immigrant life.”

—From the catalog

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The Solidarity Stories: Community - Led Book Discussion takes place the 3rd Tuesday of each month in the upstairs lounge area of Mixt Food Hall in Brentwood, MD. Limited parking is available via the garage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Ave. Parking is free for program participants and no purchase is required, but participants are welcome to order snacks, drinks, or dinner from Mixt’s vendors. For more information, visit their website: https://mixtfoodhall.com