Watch-the-Book, Read-the-Movie will Read Everything is Illuminated for the month of January. Participants are encouraged to read the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer and then view the movie version on Monday, January 26 at 5 p.m. in the McCoskey Room, the library’s lower level multi-purpose room. Discussion time will be available after the movie.
The 2005 film, starring Elijah Wood, tells the story of a young Jewish American flies to the Ukraine in search of his grandfather's past. He has a photograph and the name of a village. He hires the Odessa Heritage Tours, made up of a gruff old man and his English-speaking grandson. The three, plus grandfather's deranged dog, travel in an old car from Odessa into Ukraine's heart. Jonathan, the American, is a collector, putting things he finds into small plastic bags, so he will remember. Alex, the interpreter, is an archetypal wild and crazy guy. Alex asks the old man, "Was there anti-Semitism in the Ukraine before the war?" Will they find the village? The past illuminates everything.
For more information, call Erica or Stacey at 993-5935.