Every month, Katie's Cup Book Club chooses moving and poignant stories to highlight the human condition. We meet on the second Thursday of the month at 10 AM and the club is free and open to the public.

Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, May 13th at 10am.

Zoom link is sent via email each month. Please email us at **katiescuprockford@gmail.com** to be added to the mailing list.

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May's Selection: "Honolulu" by Alan Brennert

”Honolulu is the rich, unforgettable story of a young "picture bride" who journeys to Hawai'i in 1914 in search of a better life.

Instead of the affluent young husband and chance at an education that she has been promised, she is quickly married off to a poor, embittered laborer who takes his frustrations out on his new wife. Renaming herself Jin, she makes her own way in this strange land, finding both opportunity and prejudice. With the help of three of her fellow picture brides, Jin prospers along with her adopted city, now growing from a small territorial capital into the great multicultural city it is today. But paradise has its dark side, whether it's the daily struggle for survival in Honolulu's tenements, or a crime that will become the most infamous in the islands' history...

With its passionate knowledge of people and places in Hawai'i far off the tourist track, Honolulu is most of all the spellbinding tale of four women in a new world, united by dreams, disappointment, sacrifices, and friendship.”