The Evening Book Club

The Evening Book Group is reading The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian. We have copies available at the desk. We will discuss the book on Monday, Sept. 15th at 6:30 p.m. Call the library at 872-2927 for more information.

From Amazon: Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder—perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don't Rise.

Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father.

Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see in Ohio.

As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives.

You may also like the following events from Broken Bow Public Library:

• Next Monday, 8th September, 10:00 am, Tots & Toys Storytime in Broken Bow
• Next Monday, 8th September, 02:00 pm, Chair Yoga & Meditation in Broken Bow
• Next Wednesday, 10th September, 05:30 pm, T.A.B. (Teen Advisory Board) in Broken Bow