WRJ Book Club

WRJ/Sisterhood Book Club – How to Read a Book
Friday, April 24 at 10:00 am

Please join the WRJ/Sisterhood Book Club in The Temple Fishman Library for interesting discussions. We will meet on Friday, April 24 at 10:00 am to discuss How To Read a Book: A Novel by Monica Wood. Please note there is more than one book with a similar title, so confirm that the author is Monica Wood. Amazon writes, “In this emotional book club fiction, Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher.

Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn’t yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland-Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman-their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways.

How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about forgiveness, letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. With the heart, wit, grace, and depth of understanding that has characterized her work, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living.”

Everyone is welcome to attend our meetings. We offer the option to attend on Zoom, if you are unable to join us in person. Please contact Susan Waterman at susan.waterman1@gmail.com with questions, comments, suggestions for future book selections, or to receive the Zoom link.

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