Current Owl Book Group Selection
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Friday, January 25th @ 10:30am
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy’s body. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state, called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.
Book Club Kits
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Owl Book Group Schedule 2018-2019
Our library book club typically meets on the last Friday of each month at 10:30 am. Newcomers welcome!
July 27, 2018 – The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
August 31, 2018 – Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild
September 28, 2018 – Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
October 26, 2018 – The Past by Tessa Hadley
November 23, 2018 – Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
December 15, 2018 – Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
January 25, 2019 – Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
February 22, 2019 – The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
March 29, 2019 – A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
April 26, 2019 – The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
May 31, 2019 – Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
June 28, 2019 – Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
