Thursday Night Book Club In-Person
Join the Library's longest running book club on the 2nd Thursday of every month to discuss a new book! This month, we are reading Dinosaurs: A Novel by Lydia Millet. Copies are available at the Downtown Information Desk.
Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction.
Her exquisite new novel is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil’s unexpected devotion to the family, Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins—what one person can do in a world beset by emergencies.
Dinosaurs is both sharp-edged and tender, an emotionally moving, intellectually resonant novel that asks: In the shadow of existential threat, where does hope live?
We will meet in person in the Downtown Library Community Room and simultaneously on Zoom.
To hear about all our upcoming programs, sign up for our weekly email blast at tiny.cc/fplnewsletter
- Date:
- Thursday, April 11, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Arizona Time (change)
- Location:
- Downtown Library Community Room (Capacity 41)
- Library:
- Downtown Library
- Audience:
- Adults Seniors
- Categories:
- Book Discussions and Author Talks