On Thursday, November 17th, between 2:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. , at the James A. Tuttle Library, Antrim readers will discuss Jodi Picoult’s Leaving Time.
New Hampshire’s Jodi Picoult is the top-selling author of twenty-eight novels. Princeton University recently named her as one of the University’s most influential graduates. In her fiction, Picoult often focuses on internal family conflicts, and , in the past, she has ignited controversies concerning “abortion, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, PBGT rights and school shootings.
Leaving Time follows Jenna Metcalf who, at age three, lost contact with her mother in the wake of a mysterious accident. Ten years later, Jenna hires a psychic and a washed-up detective to locate her mother who, Jenna believes, is still alive. With great discernment, Picoult explores this mother-daughter relationship.
Among the questions Book Club members may discuss on the November 17th are:
How do the novel’s characters deal with various losses?
How do three contrasting characters – Jenna, Serenity, and Virgil – form an unorthodox “family”?
How can rational individuals believe in ghosts or psychic readings? Are passages in this book too weird to be true?
The Antrim Eclectic Book Club meets on the third Thursday each month between 2:15 PM and 3:15 PM at the James A Tuttle library. Free copies of the books described above will be available for loan at the Library. For further information please email Steve Ullman at stephenhullman@gmail. We warmly welcome newcomers to our book lovers’ group.
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