The Cityline Book Club is back and we want every one of you to get in on the literary fun! Four steps to maximize your book club membership:

1. Pick up the selected title—We’ll announce the month’s selection at the beginning of the round.
2. Join the Cityline Book Club Facebook Group—Click here to join and read along with Tracy! Check the group often for her hot takes, video reviews, and interactive content.
3. Use the hashtags—Hashtag #CitylineLit and #ReadMoore (plus mention Cityline) on your book club tweets, photos, and videos. This allows us to easily react to and share your posts.
4. Tune in to our interview with the author—At the end of the novel, we’ll share an exclusive interview with Tracy and the author on our YouTube Channel.

June’s Cityline Book Club pick is ‘The Light of Eternal Spring’ by Angel Di Zhang.

Purchase the book here.

Angel Di Zhang’s intensely cinematic debut novel travels from the streets of New York City to northeast China, on the trail of a young photographer who needs to reconcile with her dead mother before she is able to see the world again.

“Amy Hilton, born Wu Aimee in the tiny Chinese village of Eternal Spring, has been living and working as a photographer in New York City for so long she’s started to dream in English. When in the fall of 1999 she receives a letter from her sister, written in her birth tongue of Manchu, she needs to take it to a Chinatown produce vendor to get it translated. And so it is this stranger who tells Amy that her mother has died of a broken heart.

Amy blames herself. How could she not? Her mother has never recovered from her oldest daughter leaving her, first for school, then to pursue her art, and finally to marry a white man. Vowing to be there for her mother in death as she hasn’t been in life, she books a flight to China. Haunted by the folk stories her mother told her about a shaman’s journey to the underworld to retrieve her child, Amy undertakes a quest that strips away all the elements of her new identity, leaving her ready to make amends. But when she finally reunites with her family, things are far different than she remembers, and her loved ones are less than thrilled to welcome their prodigal daughter home.

Interwoven with indelible scenes from Amy’s childhood, The Light of Eternal Springis a tenderly told story about leaving home and returning again, and about forgetting where you come from until you can’t forget any longer. Blending playful magical realism with the family balancing acts all immigrants and artists know so well, Angel Di Zhang creates a nuanced portrait of family lost and family found, of the transformative power of art, and of the need to transform yourself in order to make art that’s true.”

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