Join a new online book group called The Hoopla Huddle, which will include books you can download through Hoopla. This month we’ll be reading The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata. The discussion will be held online using a communication website/app known as Zoom.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel titled Lost City. It earns a modest but enthusiastic readership, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before Adana dies, leaving behind her husband and son, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript.
Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower’s dying grandfather asks him to send a mysterious package to Adana Moreau’s son, Maxwell, a theoretical physicist at the University of Chile. When the package is unexpectedly returned, Saul discovers that it contains a manuscript titled A Model Earth, written by none other than Adana Moreau.
Who was Adana Moreau? How did Saul’s grandfather, a Jewish immigrant born on a steamship, come across this lost manuscript? With the help of his friend Javier, Saul tracks down an address for Maxwell in New Orleans, and, just as Hurricane Katrina strikes, the two head south to that storm-ravaged city hit search of answers.
If you’re interested in participating, please send an email to irondequoit@libraryweb.org for further instructions on how to use Zoom and to receive the meeting number and password.
Published on April 14, 2020.
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