Our WV LIVING BOOK CLUB isn’t your run-of-the-mill book club. Each issue, we choose a book to read that meets one of the following criteria:
A book about West Virginia
A book by a West Virginian
A book printed and distributed through WVU Press
You can join us in person at The F.A.R.M in Granville, right outside of Morgantown, or join us virtually. Our goal is to make it fun and interactive. We theme our gatherings by incorporating food that fits with the tone and tenor of the book and facilitate discussion with the author or a subject expert.
Halfdollar is a novel written by the five-time winner of West Virginia’s annual Liar’s Contest, Bil Lepp. Edison Jansen is five years old when he learns from his dog that if you pee on a tree, that tree and all the surrounding area, becomes yours. That same year Skeeter Barth, mastermind of mayhem, moves in next door to Edison. Together they set out to conquer the world. Edison, Skeeter, and Charolais prove again and again that three smart-aleck, headstrong, and somewhat lazy adolescents can’t be stifled by the hard town of Halfdollar, West Virginia, where unemployment, depression, drunken adults, and bad teachers are as a common as banjos at a bluegrass festival.
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