What You Are Looking for Is in The Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts (2023), 304 pp. General Fiction. Vignettes follow Tokyo residents to a local library, where book recommendations from a wise librarian set them on a path to seeing what it is they hold valuable. Discussion Leader: Jyothi […]
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (2021), 592 pp Historical Fiction. Four boys—three 18-year-olds who met in a juvenile reformatory, plus a brainy 8-year-old—set out from Nebraska in June, 1954, in an old Studebaker, to purse a better future. Discussion Leader: Jan Malick Location: Back Porch or Ladies Card Room at Deercreek Country Club TBA […]
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (2021), 368 pp Fiction. Set against the 1974 Greek and Turkish conflict on the island nation of Cyprus is the love story of Greek Cypriot Kostas and Turkish Cypriot Defne. The novel chronicles their eventual migration to London and the impact of their past on their daughter […]