The Panafro Book club

Hello everyone! Let's continue exploring the list of book club members' suggestions for this year. This new novel named « Queenie » and written by the british novelist Candice Carty-Williams, is a coming-of-age novel. It has been adapted on screens as Tv series. It tells the story of Queenie Jenkins, a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London and straddling two cultures.

She works at a national newspaper, as the only black employee she faces several challenges. After a break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places… We follow her on a journey full of twists and turns as she discovers her true self.

This novel entered the Sunday Times Bestseller hardback chart and it was selected for the longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020. It has also been qualified in medias as "smart and breezy comic debut"and "astutely political, an essential commentary on everyday racism".

The book is available on loan from Luxembourg libraries.

Thanks to our survey, I can already announce the next three books that will follow this one:

May - The bleeding of the stone by Ibrahim Al-Koni

June - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

July - The joys of motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

On 4 March we'll be holding a special event, a discussion at the city library with French author and journalist Dorothée Myriam Kellou about her book « Nancy-kabylie ». The discussion will be followed by a cocktail. The event is free.

Please register via the library link: https://citybiblio.lu/event/dorothee-myriam-kellou

This event will be the opportunity to have some surprises, in particular the calendar of our next books!