Join us at the Alachua Branch for a fun monthly book discussion. Each month we will select one Adult Fiction or Nonfiction title to read and discuss it as a group. Meetings will be held on the third Tuesday of each month at 2 p.m. in the Meeting Room. Copies of the current book will be available upon request at the Circulation Desk. To confirm availability, please call 386-462-2592
Currently Reading:
The Water Dancer by Ta-Hahisi Coates
Tuesday, June 17, 2:00 p.m., Alachua Branch Meeting Room
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.
This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen. (Goodreads)
Upcoming Meetings:
July 15 - The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder by David Grann
August 19 - Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Previously Read:
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Maid by Nita Prose
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Interested in other book clubs? Learn about all our groups on our Book Clubs page.