Portland Public Library hosts Friday Night Book Club

5:30-7:00pm in Meeting Room #5

Next up: Friday, January 16th for “This is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz

Portland, Maine - Portland Public Library hosts the Friday Night Book Club on Friday, January 16, in Meeting Room 5 at the Main Library. Doors open at 5:30; discussion starts at 5:45 and generally goes till 7:00 p.m. Friday Night Book Club is for those interested in reading and discussing contemporary fiction written or translated within the last twenty years. Discussions are led by library staff members.  Friday Night Book Club will be a social event where readers will have a chance to network and socialize before the discussion begins.  Refreshments will be provided.  This month the club will discuss “This is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz.  

About the book

In his short story collection This is How You Lose Her, Junot Díaz turns his remarkable talent to the
haunting, impossible power of love – obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness–and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in the New York Times-Bestselling This Is How You Lose Her lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart.

New members are always welcome! Please email hartsig@portland.lib.me.us or call the Reader’s Advisory desk at 871-1700, ext. 705, if you have any questions about the group. This program is free and registration is preferred.