Book Club

The Truro Library Book Group meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. at the Library.  All are welcome whether you can attend regularly or occasionally.  Copies of each month’s selection are available for check-out at the Circulation desk.  Call the library for more information (508-487-1125).

 

Feb. 27 – 6 PM

Memoirs of Studs Terkel:

Talking to Myself:  A Memoir of My Times (1973)

Touch and Go:  A Memoir (2007)

March 26 – 6 PM

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (fiction)  

A story of life in France under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"Storm in June," set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied village rife with resentment, resistance, and collaboration.
                                                

April 30 – 6 PM

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)

Despite the term, this is autobiography/memoir.  The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.

May 28 – 7 PM

The Outermost House by Henry Beston

Part of the One Book  One Town program series