Join us for our regular lunchtime book dis cussion of Spokane is Reading selection One Two Three by Laurie F rankel. Request a copy with your library card via our online catalog: \;physical book\, \; large type\, audiobook\, e-book\, and \;e-audiobook.
\ nRegister \;and you'll get an email with instructi ons on how to participate via Zoom.
\nAbout the book
\nMab is the "normal" one\, never mind Bourne Memorial High School has banned that term\, and besides\, she's a stickler for words and defin itions and knows normal isn't normal in Bourne. Monday is a stickler for e verything else. She doesn't like abbreviations\, contractions\, lies\, typ os\, or wearing green clothes on yellow days. When the Bourne library shut down--funds desperately needed elsewhere--she stashed the books under her bed\, behind the sofa\, along the stairs\, inside the microwave\, and len ds them from home. Mirabel's the smart one\, the slow one\, the stuck one. Much of her body requires augmentation--she needs a wheelchair to navigat e the world\, a voice app to speak to it--but her right arm and hand work flawlessly. And so do her brain and her heart. Nora gave her girls "M" nam es with escalating syllables so she'd be able to keep them straight. As if single parenting sixteen-year-old triplets weren't enough\, her two jobs- -Bourne's only therapist and its only bartender--are both in unusually hig h demand. And then there's the job she can't let go--lead plaintiff in Bou rne's class-action lawsuit against Bison Chemical. Seventeen years ago\, t he Bison plant was pumping toxic chemicals into Bourne's river. Flowers st opped blooming. Pets got sick\, then their owners did too. A generation wa s born not quite whole. Nora assures her daughters they're perfect just th e way they are\, but she's still spent their whole lives fighting to make Bison pay. When a new student at Bourne Memorial High turns out to be the grandson of Bison's CEO\, everyone realizes that in a town where nothing e ver changes\, suddenly everything has. And when Bison announces plans to r eopen the plant\, the girls take up their mother's cause in a race to find what Bison is hiding and to stop them. Part small-town mystery\, part gir l-superhero story\, One Two Three is Laurie Frankel's specialty\, a timely \, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry an d laugh again.
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