Adult Book Club Discussion

The Yellow Bird Sings

Please join us for one of our meetings of our Adult Book Club scheduled for Tuesday, September 10, at 1:00 pm and Friday, September 13, at 1:30 p.m. We will be discussing the book "The Yellow Bird Sings" by Jennifer Rosner.

As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her 5-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night, Shira struggles to stay still and quiet, as music pulses through her and the farmyard outside beckons. To soothe her daughter and pass the time, Róza tells her a story about a girl in an enchanted garden:

The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom.

In this make-believe world, Róza can shield Shira from the horrors that surround them. But the day comes when their haven is no longer safe, and Róza must make an impossible choice: whether to keep Shira by her side or give her the chance to survive apart.

Inspired by the true stories of Jewish children hidden during World War II, Jennifer Rosner’s debut is a breathtaking novel about the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter. Beautiful and riveting, The Yellow Bird Sings is a testament to the triumph of hope―a whispered story, a bird’s song―in even the darkest of times.


Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library.

What:  Adult Book Club

When/Where:  Tuesday, September 10, at 1:00 p.m. - East Troy Lions Public Library
                                              OR

When/Where: Friday, September 13, at 1:30 p.m.  - East Troy Lions Public Library


East Troy Lions Public Library Adult Book Club Reading List 2024

    

January: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

February:  Deep by James Nestor
 
March: Old Filth by Jane Gardam

April:  Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

May:   Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

June:  Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

July:  Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

August: Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper & K. Howe

September:  The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner

October:  The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

November:  Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

December:  The Boys by Kate Hefner


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