Friday, March 9, 2012

Memoirs & Coffee Book Group to Meet



The next meeting of Bernardsville Library’s book discussion group, Memoirs and Coffee, will be held on Tuesday, March 27 at 10:30 am in the library’s Community Room. Pat Kennedy-Grant, Readers’ Services Manager for the library, will lead the discussion of “Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom” (2011) by Yangzom Brauen. [The author will not be present.]

The book is a powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao’s Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom.

Born in 1980 to a Swiss father and Tibetan mother, the author is an actress, model, and political activist. She lives in both Los Angeles and Berlin and has appeared in a number of German and American films. She is also very active in the Free Tibet movement, making regular radio broadcasts about Tibet and organizing public demonstrations against the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

There is no charge and no sign-up is needed to join the discussion. Call the library at 766-0118 for more information.

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