Book Club, Fridays, 6:30 p.m. Zoom meeting

December 19

Long, Bright River by Liz Moore 

In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling.

Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late.

January 15

An Odyssey, a Father, a  Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn

A moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece.  When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist.

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Sara Bonk (sarabonk9844@gmail.com) or Diane Chapa (dianechapa@gmail.com)