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Young Leaders

NYC Young Leaders Book Club

Join HIAS Young Leaders and the AJWS-AVODAH's People of the Book Club for our next book discussion as we read the New York Times Bestseller

Little Bee by Chris Cleave! 

Tuesday July 13th at 7pm
HIAS HQ, 333 Seventh Avenue
(between 28th and 29th Streets), 16th floor
Light refreshments will be served.

Click here to RSVP!

 

About the book: On a beach in Nigeria, the lives of Little Bee, a teenager from a small village, and Sarah O'Rourke, editor of a posh British women's magazine, are brought into brutal conjunction. Little Bee and her older sister have the misfortune to live on valuable Nigerian oil deposits, for which their family pays a deadly price. Sarah and her husband, heedless tourists out for a walk in the sand, are confronted in an instant with a choice: Save the girls at great personal cost or ignore them. Read More>>

Interested in learning more about the author?
Click here to check out his bio or you can also read a Q & A with him about the novel.