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Teen Graphic Novel Book Club

September 29, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Free
Flyer for Teen Graphic Novel Book Club: Meets on Friday, September 29 at 3:30pm in the Youth Services Program Room. For teens in grades 6 and up. Registration required!

For teens in grades 6 and up

**SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE by co-author Ryan Estrada via Zoom!!**

This month, we’re reading Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook:

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.

This was during South Korea’s Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protestors. In this charged political climate, with Molotov cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Scarlet Letter. Instead she found herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club. And as Hyun Sook soon discovered, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence as the walls close in.

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.

The book is available for pickup in the Teen Room.

Graphic Novel Book Club will meet in the Youth Services Program Room.

Sign up is required for this program. Registration will begin on August 1. Please complete the sign up form below.

Contact Maddi: mranieri@minlib.net | 781-475-5735

Details

Date:
September 29, 2023
Time:
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:

Venue

Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library
111 High Street
Medford, MA 02155 United States
Phone
781-395-7950

Organizer

Maddi
Phone
781-475-5734
Email
mranieri@minlib.net