Big Read Lakeshore Book Discussion: Adult Book Group: I Cheerfully Refuse

Name: Big Read Lakeshore Book Discussion: Adult Book Group: I Cheerfully Refuse
Start: 2025-09-23T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 1525 Baldwin Street, Jenison, MI, United States, Michigan 49428

Schedule

Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1525 Baldwin Street, Jenison, MI, United States, Michigan 49428 | Jenison, MI

Please join our book group! This month we will be discussing the book I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger which is the 2025 Big Read Lakeshore book pick. Learn more about the book read here https://bigreadlakeshore.com/
Copies of the book will be available at the circulation desk while supplies last.
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician setting sail on Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. An endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, he seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. After encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, he eventually lands to find an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, a crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society. As his guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his wake.