Tuesday\, September 22nd: Whistler\, by Ann Patchett -
\nWhen Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonath an visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, they notice an older\, white-hai red gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett\, her former stepfather\, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three\, Daphne hasn't seen Eddie for many years\, not since the fateful event that changed the direction o f both their lives. Meeting again\, time falls away\; while their relation ship was brief\, it had a profound impact on them both\, and now that they are reunited\, they have no intention of ever being separated again.
\ nTuesday\, October 27th\, 2PM: \; Enormous Wings\, by L aurie Frankel -
\nAt seventy-seven\, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn't choose the Vista View Retirement C ommunity of Austin\, Texas--that would be her three grown children--but wh en she grudgingly moves in\, she not only makes new friends\, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion\, vomiting\, and confusion start. Her children and grandchildren worry it's cancer\, dementia\, a stroke. But a raft of t ests later\, the news is even more shocking: she's pregnant. Once word get s out\, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and the paparazzi\, activ ists and medical researchers\, all descending on Vista View as Pepper trie s to determine her next move. Soon Pepper has some hard decisions to make- and some she's not allowed to make. Enormous Wings is an urgent novel abou t female agency and bodily autonomy\, morality and mortality. It's about w hat happens when you don't get to choose. It's about motherhood and family \, sex and love and friendship\, and how those bedrocks--even so late in t he day--can still change\, and then change everything.
\nTuesday\, N ovember 24th\, Upward Bound\, by Woody Brown -
\nUpward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's disabled community is\, for many of its clients and staff\, a place of la st resort. This includes Carlos\, a young aide who lost his mother as a bo y and now works there alongside his beloved sister Mariana\; Jorge\, the g entle nonspeaking giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from es caping)\; Tom\, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy\, who pines for Ann\, the summer lifeguard at the center's pool who feels out of her depth \; then there's Dave\, Upward Bound's director who came to L.A. to pursue an acting career but now channels his passion into staging an overly ambit ious holiday show starring the center's irrepressible clients. Framing the se intertwined narratives--and connecting them in surprising\, shattering ways--is the riveting and sometimes ironic testimony of Walter\, a recent community college graduate who\, after a family tragedy\, must return to t he company of his disabled peers.
\nIf you have any questions\, plea se call the Chagrin Falls Branch at (440)247-3556.
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