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Virtual: Third Thursday Night Adult Book Club
This book club will be held virtually, hosted by Washington County Library. This month's selection is Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.
Summary: Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive flirtation with a handsome younger man. In the opening scene, Dellarobia is headed for a secluded mountain cabin to meet this man and initiate what she expects will be a self-destructive affair. But the tryst never happens. Instead, she walks into something on the mountainside she cannot explain or understand: a forested valley filled with a lake of silent red fire that appears to her a miracle. In reality, the forest is ablaze with millions of Monarch butterflies. Their usual migratory route has been disrupted, and what looks to be a stunningly beautiful view is really an ominous sign, for the Appalachian winter could prove to be the demise of the species. Her discovery of this phenomenon ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever. After years lived entirely in the confines of one small house, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening out, chapter by chapter, into blunt and confrontational engagement with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.
Titles selected for discussion on this date and for other library book clubs can be found on the library website.
- Date:
- Thursday, March 18, 2021
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- Time:
- 6:30pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Virtual Meeting
- Library:
- Hardwood Creek Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Book Clubs
2020 Book List for the 3rd Thursday Book Club
January 16st - Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehesi Coates
February 20th - Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
March 19th - Cancelled
April 16th- Sandcastle Girls, by Chris Bohjalian
May 21st- Feather Thief, by Kirk Johnson
June 18th - In the Lake of the Woods, by Tim O'Brien
July 16th - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel, by Gail Honeyman
August 20th - Lilac Girls, by Martha Hall Kelly
September 17th - Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger [Banned Book]
October 15th - Curious Incident of the Dog, by Mark Haddon [Crazy Silly Chili Night]
November 19th - Rebecca, by Daphne Du Mauier [Classical Literature]
December 17th - Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens [Potluck Party]