Cloverdale Library Book Club: Afterparties

Welcome to the Cloverdale Library Book Club! Join us on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 PM for tea and friendly conversation!

This month's book is Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So.

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family.

A high school badminton coach and failing grocery store owner tries to relive his glory days by beating a rising star teenage player. Two drunken brothers attend a wedding afterparty and hatch a plan to expose their shady uncle's snubbing of the bride and groom. A queer love affair sparks between an older tech entrepreneur trying to launch a "safe space" app and a disillusioned young teacher obsessed with Moby-Dick. And in the sweeping final story, a nine-year-old child learns that his mother survived a racist school shooter.

Print Copies will be available in the branch a month before the discussion.

Feel free to email or call the library at 707-894-5271 with any questions.

2023 Book Club Schedule: 

January 10 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

February 14 The Henna Artist

March 14 The Carrying

April 11 Afterparties

May 9 The Personal Librarian

June 13 Dial A for Aunties

July 11 The House in the Cerulean Sea

August 8 Our Voice of Fire

September 12 Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

October 10 Arsenic and Adobo

November 14 Ten Steps to Nanette

December 12 Piranesi