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Hybrid Book Discussion

"When the Emperor was Divine" by Julie Otsuka

"When the Emperor was Divine" by Julie Otsuka. This hybrid book discussion will be moderated by Warren Twp. Librarian Genevieve Girvan.

This is a hybrid program – attendees are welcome to participate virtually via Zoom, call in or join in-person in the Meeting Room at the Warren Township Library branch.

* Use this link to join virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83125602121

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Meeting ID: 831 2560 2121

"When the Emperor was Divine" by Julie Otsuka. This is a hybrid program – attendees are welcome to join virtually via Zoom or in-person in the Meeting Room at the Warren Township Library branch.

"On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines."-- Provided by the library catalog.

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