It’s not that green in Irondequoit right now (more of a dreary gray with mists of white), so this January is the perfect time for the Classic Book Discussion Group to read Richard Llewellyn’s How Green Was My Valley.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful—before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story of a family and a town both defined and ruined by the mines.
Huw’s story is both joyful and heartrending—a portrait of a place and a people existing now only in memory.
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An in-person discussion of How Green Was My Valley will be held on Thursday, January 25, at 3:00 PM. No registration is required to attend.
Copies of How Green Was My Valley are currently available on our 1st Floor on the Book Discussion Shelf (just behind our New Books shelves).
You can also download a copy of How Green Was My Valley as an ebook (through Libby/Overdrive or Hoopla) or as an audiobook (through Hoopla).
Published on December 29, 2023.
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