Community Book Club is open to everyone and all are we lcome! We meet in the main library by the big front windows and tea and co okies are provided.
\nThe \;library has copies \;on a first- come-first-served basis.
\nYou can purchase your own copy in person at \;Gather Bookshop \;o r \;Book Mountain. Mention the Squamish Library book club to get 15% off your purchase!
\n\nIn Clea Young's arresting soph omore collection of stories\, friendships fail\, families stumble\, and ne ighbours know each other's business. Distinctly rooted in the Pacific Nort hwest\, Young's characters make their marks and take their missteps on the beaches\, in the mountains and neighbourhoods in and around Vancouver\, B C. A couple spontaneously invite their new neighbours to dinner and the ni ght takes a menacing turn. A widow seeks solace and revenge on the mountai n bike trails behind her home. And an overwhelmed single mother moves into a housing cooperative the same summer two teenage boys are on the run\, w anted for murder. The women in these stories crave connection but often ge t in their own way of achieving it. They are stubborn\, jealous\, and stuc k. They are misunderstood -- and misunderstand -- and lonely. They are als o perceptive and empathetic. In prose that sparks and spits\, by turns poe tic and plain\, Young writes assuredly of loneliness and connection\, love and loss\, fear and fortitude\, and perhaps most evocatively of the labyr inthine inner lives of women and girls.
\n\nRegistrat ion required.
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