Baltimore’s June Book Club
NOTE:
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We ask that everyone attending has been vaccinated for everyone’s safety.
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We are meeting at a new venue this month! We will meet in Mt. Washington Tavern’s Pimlico Dining Room upstairs.
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For newbies, we discuss the book over dinner and drinks. Please note there will be separate checks, and a 22% gratuity will be added to all checks.
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The restaurant has a very small parking lot, but there is credit card street meter parking, and a coin meter parking lot behind the restaurant by Clayworks; the meters go until 10 PM! Please do not park in the Light Rail lot– it is very closely watched & ticketed! Hope you can join us!
About the book
The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
A “Margot Lee’s mother, Mina, isn’t returning her calls. It’s a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the tenuous invisible strings that held together her single mother’s life as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother.”
Interwoven with Margot’s present-day search is Mina’s story of her first year in Los Angeles as she navigates the promises and perils of the American myth of reinvention. While she’s barely earning a living by stocking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing Mina ever expects is to fall in love. But that love story sets in motion a series of events that have consequences for years to come, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death.
