The Book Club meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7:00 pm at the Library. (Come earlier for the 5:30-7pm Friends of the Library board meeting and refreshments.) This month we're reading Anne Tyler's Digging to America. Come join us on April 13. All welcome.
“The author’s 17th novel exemplifies her skill at depicting seemingly quiet and unremarkable lives with sympathy and humor . . . A touching, well-crafted tale of friendship, families, and what it means to be an American.” -- Library Journal
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Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.” Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. ...
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