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Book Club: Those We Thought We Knew

December 19, 2024 12:30 pm

In-person at 97 Concord Rd, Wayland, and on Zoom.
(See the Weekly News for the Zoom link or contact .)

Join Anne Crystal’s Brown Bag Book Club for our next read:  Book Club: Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy.

“From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl from its center. Toya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and complete her graduate thesis. But when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town, she sets her sights on something bigger.”

accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother—terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria—and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades.”