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Larkspur Library Book Club

Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 5/15/2024
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 11:00 AM
Description:
 Discuss Ghost Music by An Yu.

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to keep her usual placid demeanor, especially since she is troubled by dreams of a doorless room she can't escape, populated only by a strange orange mushroom. When a parcel of mushrooms native to her mother-in-law's province is delivered seemingly by mistake, Song Yan sees an opportunity to bond with her, and as the packages continue to arrive every week, the women stir-fry and grill the mushrooms, adding them to soups and noodles.
Library: East Bend Public Library
Location: Larkspur Community Center
Contact: Paige Bentleuy-Flannery
Contact Number: 5416177078
Presenter: Community Librarian, Paige Bentley-Flannery