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Forsyth Reads Together featuring The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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The Help by Kathryn StockettLimited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project against a backdrop of the budding civil rights era.
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"With pitch-perfect tone and an unerring facility for character and setting, Stockett’s richly accomplished debut novel inventively explores the unspoken ways in which the nascent civil rights and feminist movements threatened the southern status quo." Booklist "In writing about such a troubled time in American history, Southern-born Stockett takes a big risk, one that paid off enormously...The Help is a compassionate, original story, as well as an excellent choice for book groups." Bookmarks "Powerful...[Stockett's] attention to historical detail, dialect and characterization create a beautiful portrait of a fragmenting world...This heartbreaking story is a stunning debut from a gifted talent." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Thought-provoking...[Stockett's] pitch-perfect depiction of a country's gradual path toward integration will pull readers into a compelling story that doubles as a portrait of a country struggling with racial issues." Entertainment Weekly
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An Evening with Kathryn Stockett Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.
Lanier Technical College Forsyth Conference Center 3410 Ronald Reagan Blvd. Cumming, Georgia 30041
Ms. Stockett will speak at 7:00 p.m. about The Help. She will follow her author talk with a book signing.
Register here to attend!
An Evening with Kathryn Stockett is sponsored by The Forsyth County Arts Alliance Fund at the North Georgia Community Foundation , BookLogix, Literacy Forsyth and the Forsyth County Public Library Friends and Advocates.
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Join us to discuss The Help by Kathryn Stockett in preparation for An Evening with Kathryn Stockett on Tuesday, September 15.
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Cumming Library Coffee Talk Book Club Thursday, September 10 at 1:30 p.m. Registration not required.
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Hampton Park Library Forsyth Reads Together Book Discussion Tuesday, September 8 at 2:00 p.m. Registration not required.
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Post Road Library Lit Chicks Book Club Wednesday, August 12 at 10:15 a.m. Please register here to attend, as childcare will be provided.
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Sharon Forks Library Literazzi Book Club Wednesday, September 9 at 2:00 p.m. Registration not required.
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African American Genealogy Research: “Breaking Through the 1870 Brick Wall”
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Charles Black Remembers: Reflections from an Atlanta Civil Rights Figure
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PROGRAMS FOR KIDS AND TEENS
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Storytellers Crafternoon featuring Coretta Scott King Honor Award Illustrator R. Gregory Christie
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Brown Girl Dreaming Forsyth Reads Together Selection for Tweens & Teens
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonIn vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South. Brown Girl Dreaming is the Forsyth Reads Together book selection for tweens and teens.
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