Active Adult Center Book Club

Join a book club for active senior citizens. Susanne Nirschl Cogar from the Barberton Public Library is the group discussion facilitator.
Members and non-members are welcome. This program is held at the Active Adult Center at 500 W. Hopocan Ave.

The book selection for September is The Garden of the Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng 

Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp. Aritomo refuses but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice “until the monsoon comes.” Then she can design a garden for herself.