Between the Lines Book Club Reads “Hum If You Don’t Know the Words”

Interested in joining a book club? Try our Between the Lines Book Club! We have three different sessions including afternoons and an evening to ensure there’s a time that works for you! Did we mention there’s FREE refreshments?

This month we’ll be discussing “Hum If You Don’t Know the Words” by Bianca Marais! Stop by the Aurora or Dillsboro Library to pick up your copy today!

Aurora: Thursday, July 24th @ 1 pm

Dillsboro: Friday, July 25th @ 1 pm

Aurora: Tuesday, July 29th @ 6 pm

“Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband’s death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred…until the Soweto Uprising, in which a protest by black students ignites racial conflict, alters the fault lines on which their society is built, and shatters their worlds when Robin’s parents are left dead and Beauty’s daughter goes missing.

After Robin is sent to live with her loving but irresponsible aunt, Beauty is hired to care for Robin while continuing the search for her daughter. In Beauty, Robin finds the security and family that she craves, and the two forge an inextricable bond through their deep personal losses. But Robin knows that if Beauty finds her daughter, Robin could lose her new caretaker forever, so she makes a desperate decision with devastating consequences. Her quest to make amends and find redemption is a journey of self-discovery in which she learns the harsh truths of the society that once promised her protection.” -Goodreads