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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 Laurentian Divide: a novel by Sarah Stonich.
Summary: Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can't thaw the community's collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What is different this year is what's missing: Rauri Paar, the last private landowner in the Reserve, whose annual emergence from his remote iced-in islands marks the beginning of spring and the promise of a kinder season. The town's residents gather at the local diner and, amid talk of spring weather, the latest gossip, roadkill, and the daily special, take bets on when Rauri will appear-or imagine what happened to him during the long and brutal winter. Retired union miner and widower Alpo Lahti is about to wed the diner's charming and lively waitress, Sissy Pavola, but, with Rauri still unaccounted for, celebration seems premature. Alpo's son Pete struggles to find his straight and narrow, then struggles to stay on it, and even Sissy might be having second thoughts. Weaving in and out of each other's reach, trying hard to do their best (all the while wondering what that might be), the residents of this remote town in all their sweetness and sorrow remind us once more of the inescapable lurches of the heart and unexpected turns of our human comedy.
Titles selected for discussion on this date and for other library book clubs can be found on the library website.
- Date:
- Thursday, April 15, 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]