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The sleeping car porter (book club kit - fiction) /

by Mayr, Suzette.

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Coach House Books, 2022.

BOOK CLUB KIT FICTION MAY

Train attendants -- Fiction.

Gay men, Black -- Fiction.

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Information kit for "The sleeping car porter"

9781552454589 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Book club kit : The sleeping car porter

Bookclub kit : The sleeping car porter

10 copies, 219 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Holds can be placed via the Request Form on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available.

Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Suzette Mayr's "The sleeping car porter", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 weeks.

"Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George." On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two gay men, Baxter's memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor."--From publisher.

Winner of the Giller Prize, 2022.

Historical fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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