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Community Read Book Discussion

American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell

2023-10-12 19:00:00 2023-10-12 20:00:00 America/New_York Community Read Book Discussion Reed Memorial Library - Jenkins Room

Thursday, October 12
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-10-12 19:00:00 2023-10-12 20:00:00 America/New_York Community Read Book Discussion Join us for this special book discussion of a collection of short stories in collaboration with the Community Read sponsored by Hiram College. Space is limited to 15 people. Reed Memorial Library - Jenkins Room

Reed Memorial Library

Jenkins Room

Join us for this special book discussion of a collection of short stories in collaboration with the Community Read sponsored by Hiram College. Space is limited to 15 people.

“These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”―National Book Award citation

American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out how to prosper in the twenty-first century. Through the complex inner lives of working-class characters, Bonnie Jo Campbell illustrates the desperation of post-industrial America, where wildlife, jobs, and whole ways of life go extinct and the people have no choice but to live off what is left behind.

To see all the events related to the Community Read, visit https://www.hiram.edu/community-reading-program/

Book description courtesy of Amazon.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussion |

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Reed Memorial Library

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