The OGPL Book Club is currently reading Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett. This book was chosen for Halloween/Mystery Month.
Our next meeting
is November 7th
at 6:30 pm.
The Olive G Pettis Book Club meets on the first Thursday of each month from 6:30 to 7:30 PM
In October we are reading Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett.
This book was chosen in celebration of Halloween/Mystery Month!
Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she's lost her way. A med school dropout, she's come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire to care for her father, dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days.
Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad's illness, her mom's judgement, and her younger brother's recent stint in rehab, but she's unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. The police say they don't spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emma's dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, and Emma is hopeful he could be right. Someone should look for her, at least. Emma isn't really trying to be a hero—but somehow she and her father set in motion just the kind of miracle the town needs.
Set against the backdrop of a small town in the throes of a very real opioid crisis, Unlikely Animals is a tragicomic novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, and the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost.
Annie Hartnett based this book off of our neighboring town of Newport, NH!
(book summary from goodreads.com)
Next Meeting: November 7th
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Recent Reads
September 2024, Banned Book Week
We read: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
We give it: 3.5 stars
August 2024, Childhood Favorites
Reader's Choice
July 2024, Disability Pride Month
We read: Being Heumann by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner
We give it: 4 stars
June 2024, LGBTQ Pride Month
We read: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
We give it: 4.5 stars
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