Virtual Event: Hiawassee Book Club

In November the Hiawassee Book Club will discuss The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak.

Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he’s searching for lost love. Years later a fig tree grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family’s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.

This event occurs online through Zoom. An email will be sent before the event with more information on how to join. To receive the Zoom link, please register at the Library's website, https://attend.ocls.info/event/6940085

Virtual access to this title is available in both eBook and Audiobook formats.

Print: https://iii.ocls.info/record=b2361312~S1
Large Print: https://iii.ocls.info/record=b2393126~S1
Overdrive E-book: https://ocls.overdrive.com/media/6321662
Overdrive Audio: https://ocls.overdrive.com/media/6312325