Bulldog Book Club February Pick:
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
Our next meeting is 2/14 @ 7:45 am in the library!

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The War Outside by Monica Hesse
1944. Crystal City, Texas.
Margot gave up everything to keep her family together--imprisoned in the Crystal City family internment camp, worlds away from their German-American farm community in Iowa. but the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. As Margot watches her mother's health deteriorate and her loving, patriotic father turn into the man who fraternizes with Nazis, she wonders what more it will take to keep her family whole.
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Today the world faces an enormous refugee crisis--22.5 million people, the highest number of refugees ever recorded, fleeing persecution and conflict from Myanmar to Syria. Yet the United States is increasingly closing its doors, reducing the number of refugees allowed to resettle here each year. Other countries, from the United Kingdom to Germany, have become less welcoming as well.
In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences: Maaza Mengiste exhumes the human cost of a refugee's journey; Kao Kalia Yang recalls the courage of children in a camp in Thailand; Aleksandar Hemon recounts a fellow Bosnian's answer to his question, "How did you get here?"; Thi Bui offers two uniquely striking graphic panels; David Bezmozgis writes about uncovering new details about his past and attending a hearing for a new refugee.
Poignant and insightful, this collection of essays reveals moments of uncertainty, resilience in the face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity. The Displaced is a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge.

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