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Senior Fiction Focus @ Belmont |
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Meets at the Belmont branch, 3rd Wednesdays 10:15-11:30, February through October (no meetings in November, December, or January). |
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MARCH 2019 SELECTION meeting: March 20th
by Dinaw Mengestu
After fleeing the Ethiopian revolution, Sepha Stephanos runs a grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where he witnesses a series of racially charged incidents and bitterly reflects on his past and the differences between his actual prospects and the life he imagined.
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APRIL 2019 SELECTION meeting: April 17th by Helon Habila
Two journalists, a young upstart and a disillusioned veteran, are sent to find the missing wife of a British oil executive in the environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta where they must contend with the brutality of government soldiers and militants. |
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MAY 2019 SELECTION meeting: May 15th
by Jesmyn Ward
Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.
also available in Large Print. |
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JUNE 2019 SELECTION meeting: June 19th
by Tayari Jones
When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned. B
also available in Large Print and audio CD. |
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JULY 2019 SELECTION meeting: July 17th by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. also available in Large Print, audio CD, movie tie-in edition, and GetLit backpack kit. |
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AUGUST 2019 SELECTION meeting: August 21st
by Jodi Picoult
A powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
also available in Large Print. |
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SEPTEMBER 2019 SELECTION meeting: September 18th
by B. A. Paris
The friends of a seemingly perfect socialite couple begin to see cracks in the facade when they realize that the husband and wife are never apart and that there are bars on one of their upstairs windows.
also available in Large Print, audio CD, and eBook. |
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OCTOBER 2019 SELECTION meeting: October 16th
by Zoe Wicomb
Running a 1990s Cape Town travel agency in spite of her private hatred of traveling, Marion shares a complex relationship with an African employee and eschews national politics, until the exposures of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reveal dark family secrets.
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Belmont Branch, Richmond Public Library
3100 Ellwood Avenue
Richmond, VA 23221
(804)646-1139
rvalibrary.org
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