Arlington 55+ Book Club: "Stars of Alabama"
We meet to discuss an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction.
This book club is hosted in partnership with the Arlington's Office of Senior Adult Programs.
We are led by an experienced volunteer. We welcome new members to join us in reading and discussing current literary fiction, historical fiction and some nonfiction titles.
We meet via a hybrid format, both online and in person on the first Friday of the month. If you wish to participate in person, join us in the Bluemont Room at Central Library.
Registration required to receive the Zoom link.
2023 Reading LIst:
- Jan. 5: "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
- Feb. 2: "Jesus and the Disinherited" by Howard Thurman
- Mar. 1: "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Apr. 5: "Once There Were Wolves" by Charlotte McConaghy
- May 3: "The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Bladwin Shaped a Nation" by Anna Malaika Tubbs
- Jun. 7: "The Lincoln Highway" by Amor Towles
- Jul. 5: "Stars of Alabama" by Sean Dietrich
- Aug. 2: "A Thousand Ships, a Novel" by Natalie Haynes
- Sep. 6: "The Sweetness of Water" by Nathan Harris
- Oct 4: "Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist" by Judith E. Heumann
- Nov. 1: "Faithful" by Alice Hoffman
- Dec. 6: "My Antonia" by Willa Cather
For more information contact jodlum@arlingtonva.us or 703-228-5954.
- Date:
- Friday, July 5, 2024
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- Bluemont Room
- Library:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Book Club
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
About this month's title:
When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes the outfit that's been handling him--and takes the collection plate full of money with him. As the years pass, these stories intertwine in surprising ways--proving how ugly circumstances can produce beautiful people.