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Novel Conversations Book Group

Novel Conversations Book Group

Registration is required. There are 20 seats available.

In December, the group will be meeting to discuss Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

"With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone's life mean? It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. Together, they spend afternoons in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known--"unrecorded lives," Olive calls them--reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning"

Copies of the book are available at the Main Library's circulation desk.

New members are always welcome! This group meets in-person at the Main Library downstairs in the Conference Room.

Date:
Friday, December 5, 2025
Time:
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Conference Room
Audience:
  Adult  
Categories:
  Adult     Adult > Literature & Learning  

Event Organizer

Jill Kenny

978-256-5521 x1114

jkenny@chelmsfordlibrary.org

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