Aug 7 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Join us on August 7 at 7:00 pm as we discuss Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world.

No registration required.

The eBook version of Anxious People can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for Anxious People.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236.

July 24 @ 1 PM - We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai

STORIES OF EXILE

The East Meadow Public Library was awarded a book discussion grant by the Yiddish Book Center. The theme is Stories of Exile. Stories of Exile is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature works in translation that explore narratives which grapple with questions of homelands, journeys, identity, and belonging. Reading groups will compare these works written in Yiddish in the early and mid-20th century to works by contemporary writers from all across the globe.

July 24 at 1:00 p.m. - We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories From Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3.

The eBook version of We Are Displaced can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Malala’s experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement — first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere except to the home she loved. In We Are Displaced, Malala not only explores her own story, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her journeys — girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they’ve ever known.

In a time of immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, We Are Displaced is an important reminder from one of the world’s most prominent young activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a person — often a young person — with hopes and dreams. Part of the Yiddish Book Center’s Program: Stories of Exile.