Village Books in Historic Fairhaven

Sunday, March 28, 2:00pm

First published in 1929, this sophisticated story is about two girlhood friends reunited unexpectedly in Chicago to find that they have made opposite choices - one has cut all ties to her past to marry a white man who has no idea of her background, while the other has chosen to stay in an African-American community, though still living with lies of a different kind. Larsen shows the limits placed on those who are "too black" and "too feminine" to be recognized by any of the powerful in the 1920.

Sunday, May 30, 2:00pm

Every week for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, the women in Nafisi's living room spoke not only of the books they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments.