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Adult Book Discussion at Warren

2025-09-04 10:30:00 2025-09-04 11:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Adult Book Discussion at Warren The book to be discussed is "River Spirit" by Leila Aboulela. Adults are invited to this monthly book discussion program. Book lists with titles selected by group members are available at the Library. New members are always welcome. Warren Branch - Room 1

Thursday, September 04
10:30am - 11:30am

Add to Calendar 2025-09-04 10:30:00 2025-09-04 11:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Adult Book Discussion at Warren The book to be discussed is "River Spirit" by Leila Aboulela. Adults are invited to this monthly book discussion program. Book lists with titles selected by group members are available at the Library. New members are always welcome. Warren Branch - Room 1

Warren Branch

Room 1

The book to be discussed is "River Spirit" by Leila Aboulela. Adults are invited to this monthly book discussion program. Book lists with titles selected by group members are available at the Library. New members are always welcome.

River Spirit by Leila Aboulela is available as a print book, an e-book, and as a downloadable audiobook in The Library's collection.

"A spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman's coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan. The latest novel by "versatile prose stylist" (New York Times) Leila Aboulela is an enchanting story of the years leading up to the British conquest of Sudan in 1898, and a deeply human look at the tensions between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who-against the odds and for a brief time-gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice. When Akuany and her brother Bol are orphaned in a village raid in South Sudan, they're taken in by a young merchant Yaseen who promises to care for them, a vow that tethers him to Akuany through their adulthood. As a revolutionary leader rises to power-the self-proclaimed Mahdi, prophesied redeemer of Islam-Sudan begins to slip from the grasp of Ottoman rule, and everyone must choose a side. A scholar of the Qur'an, Yaseen feels beholden to stand against this false Mahdi, even as his choice splinters his family. Meanwhile, Akuany moves through her young adulthood and across the country alone, sold and traded from house to house, with Yaseen as her inconsistent lifeline. Everything each of them is striving for-love, freedom, safety-is all on the line in the fight for Sudan. Through the voices of seven men and women whose fates grow inextricably linked, Aboulela's latest novel illuminates the fraught and bloody history of a people caught in the crosshairs of imperialism. River Spirit is a powerful tale of corruption, coming of age, and unshakeable devotion-to a cause, to one's faith, and to the people who become family." ~ Grove Press, Publisher.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussion |

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Warren Branch

Phone: 317-275-4550

Hours
Mon, Aug 04 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Aug 05 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Aug 06 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Aug 07 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Aug 08 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Aug 09 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Aug 10 Closed

About the branch

A new 16,000-square-foot branch for Warren Township opened in 1974, positioned adjacent to Lakeside Elementary School and northeast of Warren Central High School. After a fire in 1979, the branch closed for seven months. A $1.1 million renovation completed in 2016 was the first major renovation since the Warren Branch originally opened.

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Thu, Aug 28, 10:30am - 11:00am

Wed, Sep 03, 10:30am - 11:00am

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