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A live, lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for EVENING ZOOM or on Tuesday, 16, for EVENING ZOOM! Registration required.
ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB
If you like everything bagels, you'll probably like The Everything Book Club. We read the best of fiction and non-fiction, literary novels, mysteries, historical fiction, memoirs and more.
We generally meet on the third week of the month at two convenient times and venues: Evening Zoom on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Daytime in Person at 1 p.m. in the Tower Room on the 2nd floor. Registration is required.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A modern masterpiece from the mystery woman of Italian letters, "My Brilliant Friend" is a vivid, emotionally charged story about two gifted girls in poverty-stricken post-WWII Naples who take very different paths yet remain deeply connected to each other. If you've already read it, let's read it again together. If you haven't read it yet, don't miss it!
Every now and then you come upon a book that shows such a vivid, original, profound talent, you just have to drop everything and read. Elena Ferrante's midcentury saga of two girls growing up in working class Naples is such a book. All you have to do is start with chapter 1 and you have to keep reading: "My friendship with Lila began the day we decided to go up the dark stairs that led, step after step, flight after flight, to the door of Don Achille's apartment." The basis of the hit HBO series.
Click on the links to order the book in print, eBook or eAudiobook on Libby/OverDrive. You can also ask for a copy at the circulation desk in the Main Branch.
"Remarkable, lucid, austerely honest...The city of Elena’s childhood is a poor, violent place...But deprivation gives details a snatched richness. A trip to the sea, a new friend, a whole day spent with your father...a brief holiday, the chance to take some books out of a library, the encouragement of a respected teacher, a sketched design for a beautiful pair of shoes, a wedding, the promise of getting your article published in a local journal, a conversation with a boy whose intellect is deeper and more liberal than your own—these ordinary-seeming occurrences take on an unexpected luminosity against a background of poverty, ignorance, violence, and parental threat."—The New Yorker
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works.
