Arlington 55+ Book Club: "Faithful"
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, November 1, 2024
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- Bluemont Room
- Library:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Book Discussion
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
About this month's title:
Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion--from dark suffering to true happiness--a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls--including an angel who's been watching over her ever since that fateful icy night.