All of the new copies of the Namesake are now in, so come in and get your copy to read, or place a request online. They’re all brand new, clean, and easy to carry paperbacks, so you can take your copy with you to read on the bus, train, or, if you’re very coordinated, while you’re walking around town.
The events for this program will kick off in September, so you have over a month to read the acclaimed book by Jhumpa Lahiri, if you haven’t already.
It’s not news that we’re selling books (even though lending is our usual M.O.) we’ve been selling books in our Cafe Bookstore for a while. But some of our donated books are a cut above the usual. Some of them are signed, first editions, or rare, out-of-print books in excellent condition. So we’ve put them online through librarybooksales.org to give a wider audience a shot at owning these awesome books. Of course, we want to make sure our patrons can see what we have to offer, too.
So, check out the list of titles currently for sale. All pricing, posting, and packaging are done by library volunteers, and the proceeds go toward the Library Building Fund.
This fall, the library is going to launch a community reading program for Watertown called “One Book One Watertown.”
Thanks to a grant from the Watertown Community Foundation and funding from the Library Building Foundation, we’ll be able to buy enough copies of Jhumpa Lahiri’s exiting novel, The Namesake, for everyone in town to read. And we mean everyone! So, stop by over the next couple of months and pick up a copy, because starting in the fall, we’ll be having book discussions, special events, lectures, crafts, food and more.
If you aren’t tempted yet, let me tell you a little bit more about the book. The Namesake is a family history, encompassing two generations of the Ganguli family, an immigrant family that gains and loses more than they expect in their pursuit of the American Dream. There’s the father, Ashoke Ganguli, who leaves Calcutta with his wife Ashima to settle in Central Square, in Cambridge, and their two children, Gogol and Sonali. The book is primarily concerned with the son, Gogol, and how he struggles against his parents cultural values, even though he shares them more than he thinks.
The New York Times called the book, “that rare thing: an intimate, closely observed family portrait that effortlessly and discreetly unfolds to disclose a capacious social vision.”
So get reading! More updates will be posted as we finalize event dates, so stay tuned.
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