Events Calendar
28 October 2025
No Strings Attached Book Club October Meeting
THE “NO STRINGS ATTACHED BOOK CLUB”
SPONSORED BY THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PTOS
“In this novel, a Vietnamese American writer best known for his poetry draws on his own experiences as a fast-food worker. Vuong’s protagonist, Hai, is a drug-addicted college dropout living in the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut. After he forms an unlikely bond with an elderly widow from Lithuania, whose house he moves into, he begins working at a fast-food restaurant, HomeMarket, where all of the employees are, like him, searching for some kind of home. The novel brims with feeling for these figures, who, though scorned by society, belong to it nonetheless. As Hai tells another character, being flawed “is actually what’s most common. It’s the majority of who we are, what everybody is” (The New Yorker).
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from 4:30-5:30 PM (ET)
LYNN BRISTOL: LYNN.BRISTOL@USPTO.GOV (PTOS)
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