Thursday, April 20

Temple Sinai Reads: Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman called Ai-Ming, who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Ai-Ming tells Marie the story of her family in Revolutionary China. It is a story of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians struggle during China’s relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. This book won the Scotiabank Giller prize. There is no charge for this program.