The Immigrant Experience: A Spring and Fall Book Discussion Group

The PHC Book Group is back! Please join us for a six-session spring and fall series that focuses on our 2022 theme of immigration. We’ll be looking through both a national and state lens each month, using novels, memoirs, a book profiling groundbreaking immigrant chefs, and excerpts from Dear Maine: The Trials and Triumphs of Maine’s 21st Century Immigrants by Morgan Rielly and Reza Jalali. (A copy of Dear Maine is included with your registration fee!) Broaden your perspective on the immigrant experience and enjoy social time and refreshments. Facilitation by PHC director Larissa Vigue Picard.

Sundays @ 2-3:30PM:

March 27: TBA (short readings mailed in advance to participants)

April 24: Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In, Phuc Tran (2020) - Vietnam

May 22: Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar (2020) - Pakistan

Sept 25: The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (2020) - Ecuador

Oct 23: Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Nigeria

Nov 20: Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, Mayukh Sen (2022) – China, Mexico, France, Italy, India, Iran, Jamaica

$35 PHC Members

$50 General Public

Registration fee covers all sessions and includes copy of Dear Maine, refreshments, and facilitation.