Read for Your Rights Book Club: "Giovanni’s Room"

The Read for Your Rights book club is a 5-session series celebrating our access to unique and explorative information and stories through America’s Libraries. This series culminates with reading George Orwell’s 1984 during the month of October, in conjunction with the American Library Association’s Banned Book week theme “Censorship is so 1984.” 
 

We will read a selection of books that have been at one time banned by state or local systems and embark on enjoying stories told in a variety of voices, times, and circumstances.

Intergenerational participation is encouraged to explore books across life experiences. Age 16+

Participation in all 5 sessions is not required.

All sessions are from 7-8pm on the last Tuesday of the month in the East Lyme Room.

• Tuesday, June 24th: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

  • Published: 1956

  • Genre: Fiction

  • Central themes: Self-acceptance, love and relationships, destructive power of societal expectations

  • Publisher Description: Giovanni’s Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin’s classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.