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Join us for the weekly Virtual Book Club. In May we will be discussing 'This is Not About Us' by Allegra Goodman. Please contact Marta Wiggins at mwiggins@library.lacounty.gov for your link to join. For adults
Join us for the weekly Virtual Book Club. In May we will be discussing 'This is Not About Us' by Allegra Goodman. Please contact Marta Wiggins at mwiggins@library.lacounty.gov for your link to join. For adults
Each week we read and discuss 1/4 of the book. Please see the weekly discussion breakdown below.
Week 1: May 5 : Chapters 1, Apple Cake - 4, Ambrose -- Pages 3 to 80
Week 2: May 12: Chapters 5, Kumquat - 8, Sheba -- Pages 81 - 146
Week 3: May 19: Chapters 9, Tanglewood - 13, The Last Grown-Up -- Pages 147 - 230
Week 4: May 26 : Chapters 14, $ - 17, Poppy -- Pages 231 - to the end of the book
"Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubenstein family, it could go either way. When their beloved older sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into decades of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives-divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals-their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible. With This is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman--whose prior collection was heralded as "one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life" (The Boston Globe)--returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters. A big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations"-- Provided by publisher.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Books, Poetry, & Writing |
TAGS: | Virtual Program | Book Club |
La Crescenta Library first opened in November 1914 as the 78th branch of the Los Angeles County Public Library. The collection was first housed in a local church building, and subsequently moved several times; once into a school house, later into a local store front, and into the Sears building in 1926.
By 1932, the library had settled into a building at 3930 La Crescenta Avenue. As the population of La Crescenta grew, so to did the demand for a new building. The library found an appropriate site on the corner of Foothill Blvd and La Crescenta Ave, and opened in March of 1963.
By 2005 the population had once again outgrown the library's space, so the La Crescenta community sought a new building. Thanks to funding from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, and Congressman David Dreier, the County of Los Angeles was able to construct an updated facility in its current location.
The building broke ground in 2007, and reopened in January 2010. The new 14,000 square foot facility, built in the style of the arts and crafts movement, features modern technology and meeting space open to the public.
