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The Oglethorpe Alumni Book Club invites students, faculty, and staff to join them as they discuss Ibis by Justin Haynes, Associate Professor of English at OU. Haynes will start the discussion by reading a passage, and book club host Richard Bakare '03 will lead a discussion for everyone.
Snacks and hot tea will be provided.
View purchase options for the book here: https://www.justinhayneswriter.com/ibis
RSVP here: https://oglethor.pe/4pxMFz2
Set in Haynes’s home country of Trinidad, “Ibis” follows the journey of young Venezuelan refugee Milagros, who is harbored by the residents of the fictional coastal town “New Felicity” just as the country adopts a hard stance against asylum seekers like her. The anti-immigration government looms large over the small community and the recent murder of a local witch has the superstitious residents on edge. Worse, an American journalist has just arrived in town asking questions. As events unfold and tensions rise, the story jumps backward and forward in time, giving readers a glimpse into the townsfolks’ lives and Milagros’s fraught search for her birth mother.
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