Looking for some leisure reading to add to your weekend plans?  Head to your local library or bookstore and pick up a copy of the next ESPC book club read!  We’ll be talking about Rabindranath Maharaj’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy on September 13. 

Here’s a quick plot introduction from the publisher's website:

Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant — wise in the culture of comic books — is both hilarious and heartbreaking. 

Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he is called to live with the father he has only heard of. He leaves his village in Trinidad and flies to Toronto, where he finds his father living in a place called Regent Park. Samuel is lonely in this “big mall of a country,” but he has his memories of superheroes — his mentors — to guide him, including the memory of an unusual friend who was two superheroes in one, as he sets out to explore what Toronto has to offer.

Look for us at 7pm on Monday, September 13 at the Strathcona Library branch of the Edmonton Public Library, just north of Whyte Avenue by the Farmer’s Market.  After entering the main doors but before entering the library itself, head up the stairs and into the room on the left.