55+ Tuesday Gathering: Book Club

For August Book Club we will be reading and discussing On the Calculation of Volume Book 1 by Solvej Balle: Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly.
We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin?
Will she ever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation and confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. (As she puts it: “That’s how little the activities of one person matter on the eighteenth of November.”)
*Additional copies of each months read available for checkout in the library.
This discussion takes place in the library meeting rooms. Contact Corrie at the North Liberty Library with questions.