Downtown Huntsville Library
We The Readers - ONLINE
Tuesday, November 17, 2026 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence this year with a search for The Great American Novel. This is a virtual meeting using GoToMeeting.
This month we are reading The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, published 2015.
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam.
The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship.
Next month we conclude with The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich.
In Person- First Tuesday of the month at 1:00 p.m. at the Downtown Huntsville Public Library in the 2nd Floor Workforce Classroom
Virtual- Fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. online at GoToMeeting.