Join us for our May Global Readers Book Club meeting!
Global Readers Book Club takes place at AARVEN (34 King Street, Margate) on the last Tuesday of every other month. Join us on Tuesday 27th May at 6:30pm to discuss Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
The book club is open to everyone and there’s no obligation to read every book or turn up to every meeting, come whenever you like. Entry is a £3 suggested donation, which includes a free tea or coffee, and all proceeds will be donated to our partner charity, African Promise.
ABOUT THE BOOK: A publishing event ten years in the making--a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until — betrayed and brokenhearted — she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America – but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations on the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.