Word: bookclub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only one whoidentifies with Golden's strong characters. TheBoston Public Library's auditorium was filled toits capacity, and the crowd of roughly 400overflowed into the aisles. The crowd, like themajority of Golden's characters, was predominantlyfemale, spotted here and there with a reluctanthusband, an enlightened male or an entire bookclub. Instead of filling the hour by readingexcerpts from his book ("We're all literatebecause our parents read to us every night," hequipped, "read us to sleep!"), Golden chose totell about the ten-year odyssey that lead to thepublication of Memoirs of a Geisha...
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