The Personal Librarian discussion guide also include the book’s synopsis and some selected reviews (which are worth discussion). These include the stresses of passing, the effort of carefully constructing a public persona, love and innocence in the 1920’s, and the price you pay for keeping secrets. Our book club questions for The Personal Librarian will help you get the conversation started by pulling at the threads of the books themes. So both the gender and the race dynamics are what makes this such a great book club choice. But what he didn’t know (and only a few others suspected) is that her position as a library curator was also notable because she was an African American passing as White. Her hiring by JP Morgan was notable in its day because of her gender.
The Personal Librarian is a surprising personalized account of true life librarian Belle da Costa Green.
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