{"id":183,"date":"2018-02-22T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=183"},"modified":"2018-02-22T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:20:15","slug":"march-book-club-meeting","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/event\/march-book-club-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"March: Book Club Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Book Club as they discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteng.com\/little-fires-everywhere\/\"><em>Little Fires Everywhere<\/em><\/a> by&nbsp;Celeste Ng.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/event\/march-book-club-meeting\/littlefireseverywhere-celesteng\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-185\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-185\" src=\"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2018\/02\/LittleFiresEverywhere-CelesteNg-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2018\/02\/LittleFiresEverywhere-CelesteNg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2018\/02\/LittleFiresEverywhere-CelesteNg-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Delectable and engrossing\u2026 A complex and compulsively readable suburban saga<\/strong>&nbsp;that is deeply invested in mothers and daughters\u2026What Ng has written, in this thoroughly entertaining novel, is a pointed and persuasive social critique, teasing out the myriad forms of privilege and predation that stand between so many people and their achievement of the American dream. But there is a heartening optimism, too.&nbsp;<strong>This is a book that believes in the transformative powers of art and genuine kindness \u2014 and in the promise of new growth, even after devastation, even after everything has turned to ash.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-right\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/arts\/books\/2017\/09\/07\/yarn-single-mom-artist-upper-middle-class-white-suburb-takes-jab-race-class-america\/kBH3tLhFISeNqekMdezj8O\/story.html\" rel=\"noopener\">BOSTON GLOBE<\/a>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>RSVP directly to Becky Hunter &#8217;63 who is hosting the next Book Club meeting at her house at 4606 Willow in Bellaire TX<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Book Club as they discuss Little Fires Everywhere by&nbsp;Celeste Ng.&nbsp; \u201cDelectable and engrossing\u2026 A complex and compulsively readable suburban saga&nbsp;that is deeply invested in mothers and daughters\u2026What Ng [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[2416],"tribe_events_cat":[2416],"class_list":["post-183","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-book-club","tribe_events_cat-book-club","cat_book-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}