Expand your Reading Horizons!

Are you interested in joining a book club but not sure what you might like to read?  We are a book club that reads and discusses a different genre each month. Take a chance with us! New members are always welcome. 

Join us the second Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at Westover Library.  

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This month's genre is the collaborative novel and the book selection is "Fourteen Days" by The Authors Guild

 

 

 

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A limited number of reserved print copies of the selected book will be available at Westover Library circulation desk approximately one month before the book club meeting.  Books are available on a first-come, first-served basis.  Patrons are also encouraged to place holds on available print or digital copies. 

For more information, please call the Westover Branch Library at 703-228-5260. 

 

Date:
Monday, March 10, 2025
Time:
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location:
Longfellow Room
Library:
Westover Library
Audience:
Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
Categories:
Book Discussion
Calendar:
Arlington Public Library

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About the book:  Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, "Fourteen Days" is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham.  One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants—some of whom have barely spoken to each other—become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn't escape when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming, and ultimately surprising narrative, "Fourteen Days" reveals how beneath the horrible loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger.

 

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