Wednesday Night Book Group
Wednesday Night Book Group
The Wednesday Night Book Group meets the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm via Zoom. Limited copies of featured titles are available from the Fiction-AV-Teen Services desk one month prior to the discussion.
June 21
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
1986, the heart of the Cold War. A young black woman working in an old boys' club, Marie Mitchell's FBI career has stalled out and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. Given the opportunity to join a task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says yes. In the year that follows Marie observes Sankara, seduces him-- and has a hand in the coup that will bring him down. But doing so will change everything she believes about what it means to be a spy, a lover, a sister, and a good American.