UPDATE 7/2/21: Author Barry Jonsberg will be joining our discussion via Zoom on Thursday, July 8th at 6:00 p.m. All are welcome to attend. 

Barry Jonsberg is a multi-award winning writer for Young Adults and children, based in Darwin in the Top End of Australia. He has written over twenty novels and has been published in fifteen countries and translated into many languages. His bestselling novel, My Life As An Alphabet [published in the USA as The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee], published in 2013, was made into a major motion picture, H is for Happiness, in 2019. It won the richest film prize in Australia, headlined the Berlinale International Film Festival in Germany and has been released in multiple countries throughout the world. The same team is currently working on a film of another of Barry’s books, Catch Me If I Fall, which was published in 2020, as well as a television series of A Song Only I Can Hear, published in 2018.

Book to Film Club is reading the novel The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee and watching the film H is for Happiness on our own, and then we will have a discussion about the book and the film on Thursday, July 8th at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom. If you would like to participate, please sign up for the event and you will be sent the Zoom meeting details. The film is available to watch through our Kanopy subscription. The ebook is always available through Libby. You can also check out the book at the library.

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Synopsis: An optimistic 12-year-old girl hatches scheme after scheme to make her mother, father and uncle happy again.

Future Meetings:

Nomadland - Thursday, August 12 - 6:00 pm

A Face in the Crowd - Thursday, September 9 - 6:00 pm

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