Books with Barb

We are excited to announce our next Books with Barb, focused on the novel by Patrick Ryan, moderated by our Book Buyer, Barb Tankel!

Your ticket to the event includes a hardcover copy of the book, which can be picked up at the store anytime before the event, along with wine and light dessert.

Limited to 25 participants.

About Buckeye:

Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, and People.

In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm’s way—until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened.

Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie—but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.

Sweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness.

About Barb Tankel:

Barb Tankel has been a bookseller and book buyer with independent bookstores in NY & CT for over 20 years and is an experienced book club moderator.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

To pick up your copy of the book, please come to the store located at 228 Sound Beach Avenue at any time before the event and let the person at the register know you are picking up a copy of Buckeye for Books with Barb.

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