July Book Club - Now is Not the Time to Panic
Schedule
Mon Jul 15 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
321 Main St, La Crescent, MN, United States, Minnesota 55947 | La Crescent, MN
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Join us for book club! Our library book club meets monthly (now with two time options for the summer - 10AM or 6PM), and is open to new members anytime! Members help select the titles we read. Our July selection is Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson. ABOUT THE BOOK:
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s unhappy house and who is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.
The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them. Satanists, kidnappers—the rumors won’t stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. The art that brought Frankie and Zeke together now threatens to tear them apart.
Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge—famous author, mom to a wonderful daughter, wife to a loving husband—gets a call that threatens to upend everything: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? And will what she knows destroy the life she’s so carefully built?
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Where is it happening?
321 Main St, La Crescent, MN, United States, Minnesota 55947Event Location & Nearby Stays:
