Forsyth Reads Together
featuring Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Forsyth Reads Together is a county-wide annual event that encourages the entire community to read, discuss, and participate in programs associated with the same book. 

This year's selection is Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.
About the Book
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See

An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.
Praise for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is achingly beautiful, a marvel of imagination of a real and secret world that has only recently disappeared. It is a story so mesmerizing the pages float away and the story remains clearly before us from beginning to end.” -Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

“Only the best novelists can do what Lisa See has done, to bring to life not only a character but an entire culture, and a sensibility so strikingly different from our own. This is an engrossing and completely convincing portrayal of a woman shaped by suffering forced upon her from her earliest years, and of the friendship that helps her to survive.”
–Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
An Evening with Lisa See 
An Evening with Lisa See
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.

Lanier Technical College
Forsyth Conference Center
3410 Ronald Reagan Blvd.
Cumming, Georgia 30041

Ms. See will speak at 7:00 p.m. about Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. She will follow her author talk with a book signing.

Register here to attend!

An Evening with Lisa See is sponsored by Literacy Forsyth, the Forsyth County Public Library Friends and Advocates, and Forsyth County Arts Alliance.
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Other Forsyth Reads Together Programs 
Book Discussions
Join us to discuss Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See in preparation for
An Evening with Lisa See on Tuesday, September 16.
Cumming Library
Tuesday, September 9 at 1:30 p.m.
No registration required to attend.
Hampton Park Library
Thursday, September 11 at 7:00 p.m.
No registration required to attend.
Post Road Library
Wednesday, September 10 at 10:15 a.m.
Childcare will be provided. 
Please register here to attend.
 Sharon Forks Library
Wednesday, September 10 at
2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
No registration required to attend.
FCPL Cinema
Hampton Park Library
Saturday, September 13 at 2:00 p.m.

Lisa See's novel was adapted into a movie of the same name, which was released in 2011.  No registration required to attend. 

Rated PG-13
Running time:  120 minutes
Book Publishing 101
presented by BookLogix
Cumming Library
Monday, September 8 at 2:00 p.m.

Lisa See had a story to tell about her own Chinese heritage in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Do you have a story to tell as well? Learn about the book publishing process from start to finish from Forsyth County’s own BookLogix.

Please register here to attend.
FCPL Writing Group 
Post Road Library
Tuesday, September 9 at 6:00 p.m.

Are you a writer who is looking for a local resource and a forum for your work? Are you looking for some feedback about your writing? Join the library as we launch the highly anticipated FCPL Writing Group. Local author, writer, and professor David Darracott will moderate the group as it is established. The group will meet on the second Tuesday of each month. No advance registration is required to attend and all writers are welcome. Each meeting will last approximately 2 hours.
Atlanta Chinese Dance Company
Sharon Forks Library
Tuesday, September 9 at 6:30 p.m.

With dazzling costumes, colorful props, and melodic music from China, this program will take the audience on a journey of the coming of age of a traditional Chinese villager. Authentic Chinese dances are interspersed with detailed live narration and audience participation. All ages are invited to attend and no advance registration is required.
Chinese Tea Appreciation
Post Road Library
Monday, September 15 at 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Yunjuan He of University of North Georgia will present Chinese Tea Appreciation, which will introduce the history and culture of Chinese tea and teach the customs and etiquette of tea drinking. Participants will taste teas from all of the main categories of Chinese tea - white, yellow, green, black, red, oolong and floral. This program is for teens & adults.

Please register here to attend.

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Forsyth County Public Library
585 Dahlonega Road
Cumming, Georgia 30040
770-781-9840

http://www.forsythpl.org/