Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students,
The Clarkson University Libraries Golden Knights Novel Club will host two discussions this month!
Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 5pm in Student Center 121 we will meet to discuss David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders & the Birth of the FBI.
In a special collaboration with CUPO and the Office of Student Life, we will also hold a discussion of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.
A film showing will be held Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 5:30 in the Student Center Multi-Pupose Rooms with snacks.
The following day, Thursday, Feb. 28 at noon a film and book discussion will be held in the Petersen Board Room in Snell Hall. Lunch will be provided for the first 20 students to RSVP at bit.ly/bealestbit.ly/bealest.
Amazon summaries follow for both books.
Send questions to Public Services Librarian Lisa Hoover at lhoover@clarkson.edu.
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David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book. Named a best book of the year by Amazon, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub, and Slate From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk:
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.