113 S. Emerson St.
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; X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Mount Prospect Public Library:geo:42.0669711,-87 .9357194 GEO:42.0669711;-87.9357194 DESCRIPTION:Join other readers in their 20s and 30s to discuss "Penance" b y Eliza Clark. .\nhttps://mppl.libnet.info/event/11856819 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a social book group for reader s in their 20s and 30s to discuss a variety of genres. Meet up with other book enthusiasts at Emerson's Ale House\, located at 113 S. Emerson St. in Mount Prospect. The Library will provide a round of appetizers for the gr oup\; other food and beverages are available for purchase.
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mmary: On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline\,
sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls. Ne
arly a decade after the horrifying murder\, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has
written the definitive account of the crime\, drawn from hours of intervi
ews with witnesses and family members\, painstaking historical research\,
and most notably\, correspondence with the killers themselves. The result
is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy\, and a town left in tur
moil. But how much of the story is true? \;
Compulsively readable
\, provocative\, and disturbing\, Penance is a cleverly nuanced\, unflinch
ing exploration of gender\, class\, and power that raises troubling questi
ons about the media and our obsession with true crime while bringing to li
ght the depraved side of human nature and our darkest proclivities.