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Join a book club for active senior citizens. Susanne Nirschl Cogar from the Barberton Public Library is the group discussion facilitator.Members and non-members are welcome. This program is held at the Active Adult Center at 500 W. Hopocan Ave.
The selection for June is Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.
Age group
Adults
Event type
Book Discussion
Location
Other