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Mid Day Book Club [October]

Mon, Oct 23

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Brielle

Join the discussion and meet new people. New Members Welcome! The books are in and you can sign a copy out at the Brielle Public Library. Copies of book available at Library.

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Mid Day Book Club [October]
Mid Day Book Club [October]

Time & Location

Oct 23, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Brielle, 610 South St, Brielle, NJ 08730, USA

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About the Event

About the Book: 

“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family— which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother—…

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