Join us at 7 PM in the Stoneham Room for our Queer Reader Book Club! In this group we will read and discuss books by and about the LGBTQ+ community. The May book is Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin. Pick up your copy at the circulation desk!

"This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit. Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city’s spiraling misfortunes; and where—between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions—he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself."

Questions? Contact Lily Mysona at (781) 507-2489 or lmysona@noblenet.org.