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<div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">Our book for February, Black History Month, is the classic </span><i style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">Invisible Man</i><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"> by Ralph Ellison</span><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">. The discussion will take place on Saturday, </span><font color="#9d1811"><b>February 24</b></font><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"> at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven.</span><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font color="#9d1811"><b>Note: This discussion will be on the 4th Saturday of the month due to the Presidents' Day weekend closure of the library.</b></font><br></div></div><div id="ydpf7780a36yahoo_quoted_7003098253" class="ydpf7780a36yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div id="ydpf7780a36yiv5989473832"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydpf7780a36yiv5989473832yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;" dir="" data-setdir="true"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:a69b24b5-f440-b29e-2eab-565e28c03890@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="max-width: 800px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" data-id="<a69b24b5-f440-b29e-2eab-565e28c03890@yahoo.com>"></div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">From Wikipedia:</div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div><i>Invisible Man</i> is Ralph Ellison's first novel, published…in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early 20th century, including Black Nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Invisible Man</i> won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953, making Ellison the first African-American writer to win the award. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man 19th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.</div><div><br></div><div>"A book of the very first order, a superb book ...it is tragicomic, poetic, the tone of the very strongest sort of creative intelligence." – Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow</div><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr">Hope to see you on the 24th,</div></div><div dir="ltr">Kevin & Paula</div></div></div></div></div>
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