"The Flower Sisters" by Michelle Collins Anderson - One Read Book Club at the Moberly Library

Name: "The Flower Sisters" by Michelle Collins Anderson - One Read Book Club at the Moberly Library
Start: 2026-05-19T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 111 N 4th St, Moberly, MO, United States, Missouri 65270

Schedule

Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

111 N 4th St, Moberly, MO, United States, Missouri 65270 | Moberly, MO

Please join us for book club at the Moberly library on May 19th at 6:00 p.m. to discuss “The Flower Sisters” by Michelle Collins Anderson.
Michelle Collins Anderson will be visiting the Moberly Library on Thursday, June 11th, at 6:00 p.m. to speak about her book, “The Flower Sisters,” for which the author won the Missouri Library Association’s Literary Award in 2025. The author will also hold a Q&A session, and copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing.
For updates and reminders about Michelle’s upcoming visit, please click here:
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To put the book on hold, please call the library at 660-263-4426, or click the link below:
https://little-dixie.missourievergreen.org/eg/opac/record/5605962
For more information about Michelle Collins Anderson and her books, please click here:
https://www.michelleanderson.me/
“Daisy Flowers is fifteen in 1978 when her free-spirited mother dumps her in Possum Flats, Missouri. It’s a town that sounds like roadkill and, in Daisy’s eyes, is every bit as dead. Sentenced to spend the summer living with her grandmother, the wry and irreverent town mortician, Daisy draws the line at working for the family business, Flowers Funeral Home. Instead, she maneuvers her way into an internship at the local newspaper where, sorting through the basement archives, she learns of a mysterious tragedy from fifty years earlier…
On a sweltering, terrible night in 1928, an explosion at the local dance hall left dozens of young people dead, shocking and scarring a town that still doesn’t know how or why it happened. Listed among the victims is a name that’s surprisingly familiar to Daisy, revealing an irresistible family connection to this long-ago accident.
Obsessed with investigating the horrors and heroes of that night, Daisy soon discovers Possum Flats holds a multitude of secrets for a small town. And hardly anyone who remembers the tragedy is happy to have some teenaged hippie asking questions about it – not the fire-and-brimstone preacher who found his calling that tragic night; not the fed-up police chief; not the mayor’s widow or his mistress; not even Daisy’s own grandmother, a woman who’s never been afraid to raise eyebrows in the past, whether it’s for something she’s worn, sworn, or done for a living.
Some secrets are guarded by the living, while others are kept by the dead, but as buried truths gradually come into the light, they’ll force a reckoning at last.”