Virtual Meeting of the Somers Library Book Group

Friday, February 12, 2:30 – 4:00 pm. We will be discussing “Things Fall Apart,” by Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe’s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.

• March Title (3/12):  “Deacon King Kong,” by James McBride
• April Title (4/16) “American Dirt,” Jeanine Cummins
• May Title (5/14) “Death of Vivek Oji,” by Akwaeke Emezi.