Bartlett Book Club
Next Book: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver.
Join us on Thursday, November 6th, for the next Bartlett Book Club meeting!
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Currently Reading:
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.
Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver's finest work.
What?
The Bartlett Arboretum Book Club is a bimonthly program that brings readers and nature lovers together in one place.
What we read is up to you! At each meeting, members vote from a selected list of nature, plant, gardening, or wildlife-themed books, to determine what the next one will be. If you would like to join the club, please read this book before the meeting date; we will be discussing our thoughts on the book as a group then.
The nature aspect of this club won’t be limited only to the books we choose. At the meetings, there will be additional educational information provided, as well as tie-in plant activities. This will vary by meeting, but activities like book swaps, plant repotting, and propagation are all on the table! Guest speakers will also be brought to the meetings, to offer additional educational information or an important diverse perspective.
This is a low-commitment book club. We hope the two months between meetings will give our members enough time to finish the book. But even if you don’t, it’s no problem. Come anyway and discuss what you got to or hear what others have to say about the book.
Where?
We will meet in the Adult Classroom in the Silver Education Center. When the weather warms up, we will meet outdoors within the arboretum grounds.
When?
This meeting is on Thursday, September 4th, from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. We meet every other month, on the first Thursday of the month, unless otherwise noted.
Anything else?
If you wish to bring a dish or snacks to share with the group, you are welcome to do so; please contact William if you plan to do so.
If you have any questions about the club please email our educator, William Carter, at wcarter@bartlettarboretum.org