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SUMMARY:Noon Book Club - Upward Bound
DESCRIPTION:Copies of this month's book are available at the Hattiesburg Li
 brary Circulation Desk. New members are always welcome and snacks are prov
 ided!\n\nFor any questions\, please email group leader Brittany Tibbett: b
 rittany@hpfc.lib.ms.us\n\nAbout the book:\nA wondrous\, deeply affecting p
 ortrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern 
 California\, depicting an often overlooked community with extraordinary wi
 t and grace.\n\nUpward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending thei
 r days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles’s disabled commu
 nity is\, for many of its clients and staff\, a place of last resort. This
  includes Carlos\, a young aide who lost his mother as a boy and now works
  there alongside his beloved sister\, Mariana\; Jorge\, the gentle nonspea
 king giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping)\; Tom
 \, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy who pines for Ann\, the summe
 r lifeguard at the center’s pool who feels out of her depth. Then there
 ’s Dave\, Upward Bound’s director\, who came to L.A. to pursue an acti
 ng career but now channels his passion into staging an overly ambitious ho
 liday show starring the center’s irrepressible clients. Framing these in
 tertwined narratives—and connecting them in surprising\, shattering ways
 —is the riveting and sometimes ironic testimony of Walter\, a recent com
 munity college graduate who\, after a family tragedy\, must return to the 
 company of his disabled peers.\n\nIn Upward Bound\, Woody Brown has create
 d an indelible\, authentic\, and profoundly moving group portrait of autis
 m and other disabilities\, all illuminated by his empathy\, sly sense of h
 umor\, and enormous gifts as a novelist. With remarkable sophistication\, 
 insight\, and creativity\, Brown depicts a community too-often invisible i
 n literature and society. Filled with characters you won’t soon forget\,
  Upward Bound will inspire and touch you\, teaching you as much about your
 self as the tender\, miraculous world behind the center’s doors.\n\nOrig
 inal listing: https://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=7284&Ev
 entID=599209&PK=\n\nDetails: https://hattiesburg.events/events/f0385938-74
 19-426a-ad9b-44c4b10de42f
LOCATION:Hattiesburg Library
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