First Readers Book Club
July Book Club
Join us on Tuesday, July 14 for a discussion that may be a virtual meeting
or at First Christian Church at 10:00 AM (check back for more details)
This month is the featured book is Bottomland by Michelle Hoover
Books are available in the office.
Everyone is welcome.
At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland--the anticipated second novel from Michelle Hoover--follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they attempt to rid themselves of the Anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains.
In the weeks after Esther and Myrle's disappearance, their siblings desperately search for the sisters, combing the stark farmlands, their neighbors' houses, and the unfamiliar world of far-off Chicago. Have the girls run away to another farm? Have they gone to the city to seek a new life? Or were they abducted? Ostracized, misunderstood, and increasingly isolated in their tightly-knit small town in the wake of the war, the Hesses fear the worst. Told in the voices of the family patriarch and his children, this is a haunting literary mystery that spans decades before its resolution. Hoover deftly examines the intrepid ways a person can forge a life of their own despite the dangerous obstacles of prejudice and oppression.
Join us Tuesday, July 14, to share some uplifting conversation! All are welcome.
In the weeks after Esther and Myrle's disappearance, their siblings desperately search for the sisters, combing the stark farmlands, their neighbors' houses, and the unfamiliar world of far-off Chicago. Have the girls run away to another farm? Have they gone to the city to seek a new life? Or were they abducted? Ostracized, misunderstood, and increasingly isolated in their tightly-knit small town in the wake of the war, the Hesses fear the worst. Told in the voices of the family patriarch and his children, this is a haunting literary mystery that spans decades before its resolution. Hoover deftly examines the intrepid ways a person can forge a life of their own despite the dangerous obstacles of prejudice and oppression.
Join us Tuesday, July 14, to share some uplifting conversation! All are welcome.
By joining our book club you are invited to expand and exchange our views and understandings by reading and discussing books. Book Club is a good way to meet outside of church and to invite non-church friends to join us. You are invited to a chance to discuss and learn more about life and ourselves. We meet every second Tuesday from 10:00 AM – 11:30. All views and ideas are welcome.
