21st Century Standouts! That’s the theme for the next series of Evening Book Club picks (October through January).
Join us Nov. 12 at 6:45 p.m. in the Margaret Knoll Gardner Lecture Room for a lively discussion of Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel, by George Saunders.
Fiction. February 1862. President Lincoln’s beloved son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery where Willie finds himself in a strange purgatory of ghosts.
“A luminous feat of generosity and humanism.” – Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review
Copies can be borrowed on interlibrary loan or purchased from one of Emmaus’ independent bookstores. Also available on Libby as an ebook and audiobook.
*RSVP: Email [email protected], call 610-965-9284, or sign up at the desk.
Coming in December: Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid.
