Please join us for our September Book Discussions! These discussions are open to the public, and you don't need to register in advance. Just read the book and come prepared to meet new people and take part in a lively discussion.
The Morning Book Group is reading The Book of Salt by Monique Truong. Booklist says, "Drawing inspiration from a fleeting reference in the
Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) to two 'Indochinese' men who at one point cooked for Toklas and Gertrude Stein, Truong has concocted a delectable fictional memoir. Faced with the decision about whether to accompany Stein and Toklas to America, return to Vietnam, or remain in France, Binh, the Vietnamese cook who has labored for the unconventional ladies he has dubbed 'The Steins,' for about five years, reflects back on his troubled life and times... Using salt as a metaphor for 'food, sweat, tears and the sea,' and interweaving the narrative with suggestions of ingredients, recipes, and exotic dishes, Truong provides a savory debut novel of unexpected depth and emotion."
The Morning Book Group meets on Tuesday, September 25 at 10:00 a.m.
The Evening Book Group is reading
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin. Amazon says, "In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas '32' Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and she was never seen or heard from again. He never confessed . . . and was never charged. More than twenty years have passed. Larry lives a solitary, shunned existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has become the town constable. And now another girl has disappeared, forcing two men who once called each other 'friend' to confront a past they've buried for decades."
The Evening Book Group meets on Wednesday, September 19 at 6:30 p.m.
The Evening Book Group is reading Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin. Amazon says, "In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas '32' Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and she was never seen or heard from again. He never confessed . . . and was never charged. More than twenty years have passed. Larry lives a solitary, shunned existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has become the town constable. And now another girl has disappeared, forcing two men who once called each other 'friend' to confront a past they've buried for decades." The Evening Book Group meets on Wednesday, September 19 at 6:30 p.m.
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