{"id":4353,"date":"2026-06-12T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/social-justice-book-club-the-magic-fish-by-trung-le-nguyen-bpl-virtual-or-prosser-6-16-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:17:01","slug":"social-justice-book-club-the-magic-fish-by-trung-le-nguyen-bpl-virtual-or-prosser-6-16-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/social-justice-book-club-the-magic-fish-by-trung-le-nguyen-bpl-virtual-or-prosser-6-16-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Book Club: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (BPL Virtual or Prosser 6\/16\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event date:<\/strong> June 16, 2026 <br \/><strong>Event Time: <\/strong>06:30 PM &#8211; 07:30 PM<br \/><strong>Location:<\/strong> <br \/>1 Tunxis Ave<br \/>Bloomfield, CT 06002-0337<br \/><strong>Description:<\/strong><br \/>For LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, we will read the teen graphic novel, The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen. Books will be available at Prosser and McMahon Wintonbury.<\/p>\n<p>Tien and his mother may come from different cultures\u2014she\u2019s an immigrant from Vietnam still struggling with English; he\u2019s been raised in America\u2014but through the fairy tales he checks out from the local library, those differences are erased.<\/p>\n<p>But as much as Tien\u2019s mother\u2019s English continues to improve as he reads her tales of love, loss, and travel across distant shores, there\u2019s one conversation that still eludes him\u2014how to come out to her and his father. Is there even a way to explain what he\u2019s going through in Vietnamese? And without a way to reveal his hidden self, how will his parents ever accept him?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date: June 16, 2026 Event Time: 06:30 PM &#8211; 07:30 PMLocation: 1 Tunxis AveBloomfield, CT 06002-0337Description:For LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, we will read the teen graphic novel, The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen. Books will be available at Prosser &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Social Justice Book Club: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (BPL Virtual or Prosser 6\/16\/2026)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/social-justice-book-club-the-magic-fish-by-trung-le-nguyen-bpl-virtual-or-prosser-6-16-2026\/#more-4353\" aria-label=\"Read more about Social Justice Book Club: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (BPL Virtual or Prosser 6\/16\/2026)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}