The Novel Views Fiction Book Discussion me ets in Group Study Room 5\, located on the lower level of the library\, in the Children's Room \;
\nJoin us to talk about this month's selection \;"The Book of Lost Friends" \;by Lisa Wingate.
\n"Loui siana\, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction\, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia\, the p ampered heir to a now-destitute plantation\; Juneau Jane\, her illegitimat e free-born Creole half-sister\; and Hannie\, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas\, foll owing dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fig hting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane\, the journe y is one of inheritance and financial desperation\, but for Hannie\, torn from her mother and eight siblings before slavery's end\, the pilgrimage w estward reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the seemingly limitless frontiers of T exas and\, improbably\, hope. Louisiana\, 1987: For first-year teacher Ben edetta Silva\, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the tick et to canceling her hefty student debt--until she lands in a tiny\, out-of -step Mississippi River town. Augustine\, Louisiana\, seems suspicious of new ideas and new people\, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lies the century-old history of three young women\, a lo ng-ago journey\, and a hidden book that could change everything."-- From t he publisher.
\nPrint copies may be available at the Germantown Libr ary after June 3\, 2026.
\nAvailable on Overdrive/Libby as an eBook and as an \;< a href="https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/5055971">eAudioBook. \;
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