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Do you love to read and talk about books? Are you interested in participating in a book discussion on Zoom in American Sign Language? If so, this book club is for YOU!
Join us online via Zoom the 4th Wednesday of every other month (except September and November, which will be the 3rd Wednesday) from 6-7 p.m.
The ASL Book Club is facilitated by Librarian Janice Rosen from the Center for Accessibility.
NOTE: Even if you do not know sign language, you are welcome to join us. Voice and automatic captioning will be provided!
Questions? Contact us at DCPLaccess@dc.gov or call 202-727-2142.
The book for May 28, 2025 is: The Fraud by Zadie Smith (2023). Please Register for the Zoom link.
Abstract:
“It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story. The "Tichborne Trial"--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task."-- Provided by publisher.
The book is available in the DCPL collection in the following formats:
AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults | 13 - 19 Years Old (Teens) |
EVENT TYPE: | Center for Accessibility | Book Club | American Sign Language (ASL) Class |
