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Books are available for checkout at the Main Library and Endicott Branch Library beginning one month before the meeting dates.
Check our Book Groups page for upcoming meeting dates and titles, and to see what we’ve read recently.
Contact Brittany at btuttle.ddm@minlib.net or 781-751-9284 for more information.
Please note that this group meets at the Ames Senior Center at 450 Washington Street, Dedham, MA 02026.
June 22: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingslover
Description:
"A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature." –San Francisco Chronicle
In this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and The Poisonwood Bible, weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside, this novel's intriguing protagonists--a reclusive wildlife biologist, a young farmer's wife marooned far from home, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors--face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth. –Provided by Publisher
AGE GROUP: | Senior (55+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Outreach | Books & Authors |
(781) 751-9495
