For the November session, the book will be Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Join the Roots Reads Book Club, meeting on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Sherri will lead a discussion on the chosen book and there will be plenty of time for snacks, socializing and connecting with the Roots community. Feel free to purchase the book from your favorite retailer, download the audiobook, borrow from the library or however else you like to read.

This event is free (tell your friends!). Please register in advance so we know you're coming!

About the book:
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.

So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.

So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.