Emma Donoghue

Our monthly book group discusses ROOM by Emma Donoghue. Copies of the book are available for checkout at Howe Library.

Join us on the fourth Tuesday of every month for the best book club in Monrovia. Discuss great books, share ideas, and make new friends. All are welcome!

The complex love between parent and child provides ample ground for novelists. Four Canadian writers have each taken a different tack on this theme in their new works. Emma Donoghue’s five-year-old narrator is trapped in a single room with his mother, while Kathleen Winter’s subject is trapped in ... (more)a body that is neither fully male nor female. Pascale Quiviger and Robert J. Wiersema approach the theme of the parent-child bond by taking forays into the worlds of the fantastic and the imagination. But all four paint compelling portraits that show us the inescapable truth that who you are depends largely on how you were raised. Tickets $19.

The Girls’ Night Out author series is honored to launch the tour for one of the most buzzed-about books of the season when Emma Donoghue comes to our Lansing store to promote her riveting new novel Room! The book has already been selected as a #1 IndieNext pick for September and has been longlisted ... (more)for the Man Booker Prize. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It’s where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and play ...and learn. At night Ma puts him safely to sleep in the wardrobe, in case Old Nick comes. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it’s the prison where she’s been held for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for her son. But Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s desperation – and she knows Room cannot contain either indefinitely… Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. If you don’t attend another book event this year, this is the night to be present! As always we’ll have goodies and our grab bag book giveaway to enjoy as well.

Emma Donoghue A program for adults Monday May 3 7:30 pm-9:00 pm Free Alma VanDusen Room, Lower Level Please join us as Emma Donoghue reads Dear Lang, a new short story from the young adult anthology How Beautiful the Ordinary and introduces her literary history, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature.

Ierse schrijfster EMMA DONOGHUE signeert in Vrolijk Bookshop haar in het Nederlands vertaalde boek LANDEN (original title: LANDING), ROMAN met humor + lesbische liefde. PROMOTION/Booksigning for THE LESBIAN NOVEL LANDING (translated in Dutch: Landen) by EMMA DONOGHUE, published in the Netherlands by ... (more)La-Vita

7:00-8:30pm. This facilitated book group meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month at Charis to discuss books which feature queer characters/ storylines as well as a strong attention to literary craft and style. Join us in July as we talk about "Landing," by Emma Donoghue. A delightful, old-fashioned ... (more)love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, "Landing" is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships--the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet.