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Janice Page, The Year of the Water Horse
Tuesday, August 25 at 3:00 PM
Afternoon tea, no cost


A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE
In conversation with Meredith Goldstein, author of The Boston Globe’s Love Letters column:

A warm and witty memoir about the ever-changing relationships between mothers, mothers-in-law, and daughters that traverses two continents and multiple generations of two disparate yet connected families. Janice Page hails from Braintree, Massachusetts and a large Catholic brood. Her parents had a complicated marriage. Her five siblings each have their own sagas, and there is a destructive genetic force within the family’s blood lines that causes much heartbreak. And then there is the large Chinese family of Janice’s husband, James, equally cinematic and sweeping with a rich and complex history of its own. There is a daring wartime escape, a lost child, immigration to a new world, and a bittersweet reunion after decades of separation.