Come enjoy discussing newer fiction and nonfiction titles. Since Election Day is on the first Tuesday of November and the library is a voting precinct, we will be meeting on the second Tuesday of the month at 1 p.m. When we meet, we start by sharing books we’ve read recently, then discuss that month’s book. You do not have to read the book to attend the meeting.
This month we will be meeting on Tuesday, November 12 at 1 p.m. in Meeting Room A.
In November, in correlation with Native American Heritage Month, we'll be discussing Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange. "Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre.” Description provided by the publisher
Upcoming titles:
December: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
January: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Previous titles:
A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith
The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
Interested in other book clubs? The Alachua County Library District has several. You can find more information on our Book Clubs page.