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Virtual Book Discussion: "Banned Book Club" by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada

Hyung-Ju Ko (illustrator) & Amanda Lafrenais (colorist)

Join a thoughtful conversation with the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights for our monthly book club! This month book club title is "Banned Book Club" by Kim Hyun. Share your insights, hear different perspectives, and connect with fellow readers. This program is a hybrid program also being offered in-person at the Upper Marlboro Branch Library.

"When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family’s restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined .In Banned Book Club, Hyun Sook shares a dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering, anti-intellectualism, the death of democratic institutions, and the relentless rebellion of reading." - Book Riot