{"id":45009,"date":"2022-08-23T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=45009"},"modified":"2022-08-11T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:17:37","slug":"augusts-celebrity-book-club-picks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/augusts-celebrity-book-club-picks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"August’s Celebrity Book Club Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a new month which means that Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon have picked new books for their book clubs! Reminder that if you join our\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/a>, these titles will automatically be put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jenna Bush Hager has selected\u00a0The Many Daughters of Afong Moy<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jamie Ford as her August pick.<\/p>\n

Curious what The Many Daughters of Afong Moy<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher:<\/p>\n

The New York Times bestselling author of the \u201cmesmerizing and evocative\u201d (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Washington\u2019s former poet laureate, that\u2019s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help.<\/em><\/p>\n

Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America.<\/em><\/p>\n

As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn\u2019t the only thing she\u2019s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who\u2019s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price.<\/em><\/p>\n

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