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Event Details
Interested in reading, discussing and learning about new LGBTQ fiction books ? Well now is your chance to join us every third Thursday of the month. Join our email list at the next book club to keep informed about upcoming events and new titles. For ages 12-18.
News update: this book club is now being led by teen. All books selections and discussion questions will be handled by Zahra. Let's all welcome her as our new teen book club leader!
March Book: Girls of Paper & Fire by Natasha Ngan
In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it's Lei they're after -- the girl with the golden eyes whose rumored beauty has piqued the king's interest.
Over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learns the skills and charm that befit a king's consort. There, she does the unthinkable -- she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world's entire way of life. Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide how far she's willing to go for justice and revenge.
"Please be aware that this book contains scenes of violence and sexual assault."