With Grace as navigator, Sylvia delivered homemade cookies with hot chocolate packets to everyone. The treats were delivered the day before as book club day began with snow that lasted throughout the day.
Our book, "Fifty Words for Rain" by Asha Lemming, centers around an aristocratic Japanese family who fears a stain on their royal pedigree brought by their willful married daughter who leaves her husband to have a relationship with an African American soldier…and the birth of their child Noriko (Nori). At the age of 8, Nori is abandoned by her mother at the home of her grandmother with the warning to not question, fight or resist her grandmother. Shamed by her dark skin and mixed race, Nori is hidden away in the attic of her grandparent's imperial estate where she suffers unspeakable abuse and neglect. Only at the age of 12, when her half-brother arrives at the estate does Nori begin to experience more to life than her confinement. This is a moving story about tradition, the power of family, loyalty, and the choices we make.
We missed Pam who couldn't join our Zoom session!
Sylvia
