EVENING BOOK GROUP
The Evening Book Group meets the last Thursday of every month at 6:00 p.m. Please join us in the Business Center (First Floor–Side Door). No registration required (967-2778) and new members are always welcome. The February pick will be The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah.
Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. [From Author’s Website]