Magazine Mar-Apr 2019

A LITERARY EVENING

Are you a newbie expat in Singapore? Or a new-ish expat still trying to figure this whole place out? Or have you been in Singapore for a while, but still just not feeling quite at "home"? Join us for a fun and intimate evening with co-authors authors Alison Ozawa Sanders and Jessica Duff, who will discuss their bestselling new book The Expats' Guide to Singapore, available for purchase on day of event.

THE

GUIDE TO SINGAPORE

Thursday, April 18 Adults’ Library, Thinkspace Complimentary Light bites available Members’ Guests are welcome! Program: 7:15 p.m. Registration and mingling 7:45 p.m. Author reading and Q&A 8:30 p.m. Discussion and Mingling

ALISON OZAWA SANDERS AND JESSICA DUFF

THE EXPAT’S GUIDE TO SINGAPORE BY ALISON OZAWA SANDERS AND JESSICA DUFF The pair behind the popular Textpat Wives blog, Jess and Ali calm your newbie fears, reveal inside information, and share their own hard-earned experiences (and many, many mishaps) which will leave you snorting with laughter. It’s like having two best friends here in Singapore, helping you to find your feet. Registration required. For more information or to register, please drop by the Library, call 6739-4308 or email library@amclub.org.sg BOOK CLUB Join our monthly Book Club sessions to meet fellow aficionados and partake in thoughtful discussions about award winning novels!

Every last Thursday of the month Adult’s Library, Thinkspace 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Complimentary refreshments will be served

MARCH 28: THE TSAR OF LOVE AND TECHNO BY ANTHONY MARRA A 1930s Soviet censor

THE FEMALE PERSUASION BY

APRIL 25:

MEG WOLITZER Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty- three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for

painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town.

Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts. In stunning prose, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents.

the first time, Greer - madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place - feels her inner world light up. Then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined.

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