Read for Your Rights Book Club: "The Things They Carried"

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, July 29th: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
• Published: 1990
• Genre: Historical Fiction
• Central themes: War, Memory/Traumatic experience, Morality
• Publisher Description: Depicting the men of Alpha Company—Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three—the stories in The Things They Carried opened our eyes to the nature of war in a way we will never forget. It is taught everywhere, from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing, and in the decades since its publication it has never failed to challenge our perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, and courage, longing, and fear.