Virtual Event: Hiawassee Book Club

In July the Hiawassee Book Club will discuss The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende.

Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children—5-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and 7-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she’s separated from her mother. Anita's case is assigned to Selena Duran, a young social worker who discovers that Anita has another family member in the United States: Leticia Cordero, who is employed at the home of now eighty-six-year-old Samuel Adler, linking these two lives. Spanning time and place, The Wind Knows My Name is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers--and never stop dreaming.

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/10317290

Virtual access to this title is available in both eBook and Audiobook formats.
Book : Large Print : Overdrive E-book : Overdrive Audio