Flatbush Book Club “Which Side Are You On”
Join Flatbush Library for our monthly book club. For February, we’ll be discussing local author Ryan Lee Wong’s “Which Side Are You On”, a debut novel about generational change, a mother’s secret, and an activist’s coming-of-age.
Twenty-one-year-old Reed wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks? In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his mother—once the leader of a Korean-Black coalition—demands that he rethink his outrage, and along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American, and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything. Inspired by his family’s roots in activism, Ryan Lee Wong offers an extraordinary debut novel for readers of Anthony Veasna So, Rachel Kushner, and Michelle Zauner: a book that is as humorous as it is profound, a celebration of seeking a life that is both virtuous and fun, an ode to mothering and being mothered.
Copies of the book are available to pick up at the library’s front desk. Masks and registration are encouraged. All are welcome.
Time: 6:00 PM — 7:30 PM EST
Free!
