Since 2008, Talk It Up! Book Club at Kingwood Library has brought readers together to explore a variety of fiction and nonfiction. Our selections reflect the diverse interests of our curious, open-minded community and range across genres, themes, and perspectives.
Join us in November as we read and discuss Buckeye by Patrick Ryan:
"In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past.
Cal's wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they've lost. Margaret's husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm's way--until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie but nothing stays buried forever in a small town.
Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.
Sweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness."
A limited number of copies of the book selection are available to check out at the circulation desk downstairs.