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Evening Book Club

Evening Book Club

Come meet new people and share a love of books, both new and old!

Advance Registration is required.

Please call the library at 610-622-8091 if you need assistance with online registration. 

Primos Branch Library
409 Ashland Avenue

Secane, PA 19018

THIS MONTH'S BOOK BLURB:

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

Two young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge.

1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed.

2011: A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace.

The fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. Alongside them, we meet a young boy who is sent to a boarding school for the métis children of French expatriates, just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule; two Frenchmen who are trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., who find themselves investigating strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds them all.

Build Your House Around My Body takes us from colonial mansions to ramshackle zoos, from sweaty nightclubs to the jostling seats of motorbikes, from ex-pat flats to sizzling back-alley street carts. Spanning more than fifty years of Vietnamese history and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing fever dream of a novel that will haunt you long after the last minute.

Date:
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Time:
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Meeting Room
Library:
Upper Darby Township/Sellers Library – Primos Branch
Audience:
  Adults     New Adult     Seniors  
Categories:
  Book Discussion  

Registration is required. There are 7 seats available.

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Library Hours

Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Sunday: CLOSED

Library Contact

610-622-8091

upperdarbyprimos@delcolibraries.org

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