Join the Fortuna Library Book Club as we discuss 'How To Read A Book,' by Monica Wood.
"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural 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." (From the publisher, Mariner Books).
Need a copy of the book? Limited copies may be available for check out. Place a hold online or ask at the library.
You don't have to have finished the book to attend, as long as you don't mind spoilers!
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