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The Wilkes BoSS Book Club is for those of us who books of all kinds but don't have time for face-to-face book club meetings. Each month, we will read a different book. Copies of each month's selection will be available at the library a month in advance, or you may choose to download the eBook via our Libby app when available. You can join us for a book discussion virtually in our Wilkes BoSS Book Club Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1329404337426672) whenever you have time and no matter what you're wearing!
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Born in London, England to Jamaican parents, Andrea Levy (1956-2019) was the author of Small Island, winner of the Whitbread Award (now Costa Award), the Orange Prize for Fiction (now Women’s Prize for Fiction), and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. The BBC Masterpiece Classic television adaptation of her novel won an International Emmy for best TV movie/miniseries. (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312571146) The Long Song by Andrea Levy is the source for the new PBS adaptation airing January 31, 2021, through February 14, 2021: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/long-song/
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The Long Song by ISBN: 9780374192174Publication Date: 2010-04-27The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until a recently transplanted English widow decides to move her into the great house and rename her. She remains bound to the plantation despite her "freedom." The arrival of a young English overseer dramatically changes life in the great house.
