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Talk books, socialize, and relax with a cold one at Maumee Bay Brewing Company, located at 27 Broadway St, Toledo, OH 43604. 21 and over only.
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
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When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng. Back in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who’s always held them together. Running parallel to this is Minh’s story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life for her children. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House’s attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life--and beyond.
Maumee Bay Brewing Company, established in 1995, is Toledo's original craft brewery. Located under the High Level Bridge in the Oliver House, Maumee Bay Brewing Company makes tasty beers and ciders.
Books on Tap is presented in partnership by Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Destination Toledo, 419 Ale Trail, and host breweries.
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