Adult book club: "Joy"

Join fellow community members for a discussion of Joy by Angelo R. Lacuesta. Please note the new date.

Participants can attend at the library or via Zoom. All are welcome! 

Registration is required by 6 p.m. on the day of the discussion. For those attending virtually, the Zoom link will be sent to the email address you used to register. The meeting link and reading guide will be emailed on the day of the event.

NVCL has a limited number of copies of each title. These will be loaned to registrants on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last. Registrants will be contacted if a copy is available. 

Do you have questions or need help finding a copy? Email info@nvcl.ca or call 604-998-3450.

About the book

"Ariston Letrero is a renaissance man: audio producer, insurance salesman, musician, composer, part-time fast food mascot, and a philanderer who quickly and quietly abandons his wife and son, Lucas, at the peak of his mottled career, for a new life in America with his lover Odette.

"Years and years later, he sends an email to his son, Lucas Letrero, an advertising man who has been brought up on super robot cartoons, Catholic school truisms, and a diet of fast food and loneliness, and who has reconnected with his childhood sweetheart Dedes, who has made a post-annulment life for herself in America.

"In the 30-odd years in between is a story that sings songs and anthems of identity, relations, loneliness, and loss, and how they figure in the lives of contemporary Filipinos who are not scattered across space and time, but who are also connected and separated at the same time" [publisher].

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