12/12/2018 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul
Le club est ouvert à tous !
Practice your reading skills and comprehension with our intermediate French book club: Les Navigateurs de la Littérature. Every month, we discuss our book of choice’s plot. We also review what we did and did not like about it. We welcome navigateurs to ask questions about the things they did not understand when they first read the story. Everyone selects their favorite excerpt, reads it aloud and then we discuss the special passage. The discussion will be in French!
This month’s selection is: Kiffe kiffe demain by Faïza Guène
Fifteen-year-old Doria isn’t in a good place. Or to be precise: she’s in the sadly misnamed Paradise Estate on the outskirts of Paris. Her father has returned to Morocco to find a wife who can give him a boy, and her illiterate, non-francophone mother is forced to fend for herself with a cleaning job in a grim motel. What’s more, her favorite soap star has turned out to be gay and it looks like the only school that is going to accept Doria is the one for future hairdressers. Still, it could be worse: Doria could be like Samra, the girl in the flat above, whose father doesn’t let her out. Or like Youssef, who has been banged up for a year for dealing in drugs and stolen cars. At least Hamoudi – twenty-eight and the coolest guy on the estate – is her friend. And at least she gets a free weekly session with psychologist Mrs. Burland, who is about the only person who listens, even if she doesn’t quite understand…
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