Open Book Club meets monthly and takes turns selecting a book. Discussion is free-style and informal. You don't need any qualifications to be part of this group, just an open mind and a love of stories. May we be transformed by these stories together!
Join us on Zoom Monday, July 14 at 6:30pm for a discussion of our next book: My Friends by Fredric Backman. Here’s a little about the book:
A group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she’ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.