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March 1 Book Club Meeting

All:

Our February meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 1st at 7pm in East Pyne 111.

Book Selection:

The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma (short-list for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, which was chaired by Princeton Comparative Literature Professor, Michael Wood: read more here)

  • The Fishermen is set in a small town in Nigeria in the mid-1990s. Four brothers, the youngest is nine, use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing in a forbidden river and encounter a dangerous local madman, Abulu, whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the very core of their close-knit family. He predicts that one of the brothers – a fisherman – will kill another. This evil prophecy of violence causes a deep rift between the brothers and starts to break the deep fraternal bonds, unleashing a tragic chain of events. Told by shy nine-year-old Benjamin, The Fishermen combines classic African storytelling with contemporary fiction, and illuminates Nigeria in all its historical, political and cultural complexity. (http://themanbookerprize.com/books/fishermen)

Enjoy!

Linsay

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PA3 Book Club January Meeting

Hello all: Please join us on Tuesday, January 26th at 7pm in East Pyne 127 for our January Book Club Meeting to discuss Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon, former lecturer at Princeton

In Brief: "Solomon’s startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal. In Solomon’s telling, these stories are everyone’s stories." (
http://andrewsolomon.com/books/far-from-the-tree/)

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Federal Reserve Gold Vault Tour

PA3 is sponsoring a Federal Reserve Gold Vault tour on Thursday 1/28/2016 at 11am. It is very educational and people come from all over the world to see it. The tour is one hour long and free, but transportation is on your own. Lunch will be reserved at a selected nearby restaurant following the tour. It's optional and self paid, but a great opportunity to make connections to people!

This event is limited to 25 people. On 1/28/2016, the group will gather at 44 Maiden Lane by 10:30am as requested by the tour.

By train: from Princeton Junction to Newark, then Path train to Financial Dist.

By car, for discount parking go to Icon Parking System and request.

If you have any questions, email Ann Huang at parents@princetonaaa.org.

Sign up here: http://goo.gl/forms/t8pKKTE53f

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First Friday Lunch - January 8th, 2016

Join us for First Fridays, a monthly recurring event for undergraduate and graduate Princeton alumni, graduate students, and parents.  On the first Friday of each month, area alumni and their guests will meet to enjoy a prix fixe luncheon at the Nassau Club in downtown Princeton.  As a special bonus for PA3, a Princeton University PhD candidate will present his/her work to the group in this informal setting.  Topics vary monthly and are always interesting!  Have a look at our impressive roster of previous luncheons.

On Friday, January 8th, 2016, we will be joined by Carlee Joe-Wong, a PhDCarlee Joe-Wong Candidate in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.  Carlee's work focuses primarily on mathematical and economic aspects of computer networking and she is particularly interested in applying theoretical insights to practical system deployments.  Her doctoral work is partially supported by the NDSEG and Jacobus Fellowships.  Carlee is co-founder of startup company DataMi, which grew out of her Smart Data Pricing research at Princeton.  The company's products are deployed by internet service providers around the world, including AT&T, Airtel and Orange

As always, there is sure to be a lively discussion! Please join us.


Specially priced at $25/person (or $30 if you choose not to pay PA3's annual dues), lunch includes three courses, a complementary beverage (wine, beer, soft drink) and coffee/tea. Pre-registration is preferred.

>> Looking forward to seeing you...in your orange and black! <<

Date: Friday, January 8th, 2016
Time: 12 noon - 2 pm
Location: Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ
Nassau Club membership is not necessary to attend this event.
Dress is business casual.

Lunch Reservation
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December Book Club

All:

Thanks, everyone, for your votes! The Lowland by far had the highest number of first picks, so it will be our December read. Perhaps we can do the second most popular choice, Far From the Tree, by Andrew Solomon, early next year. It is quite a long book, as one member pointed out.  
  • The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winning author
    • Lahiri is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton's Lewis Center (http://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jl35). I plan to reach out to Professor Lahiri and inquire about the possibility of having her join the group for part of the meeting. 
    • In Brief: "Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution: the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times best-selling author gives us a powerful new novel—set in both India and America—that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death."
Date and LocationTuesday, December 8th (7-9pm), East Pyne 111

Enjoy and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Linsay
bookclub.admin@princetonaaa.or

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