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Books and ReadingAge Group:
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Program Description
Event Details
Fiction and Friends meets monthly at the library on the 4th Thursday of the month at 6:30pm in the Multipurpose Room. This adults-only book club is geared toward readers who love historical and general fiction!
For April, we will read and discuss "Go As A River" by Shelley Read.
Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2023)
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century Colorado
On a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way. How she chooses to answer will unknowingly alter the course of both their young lives.
So begins the mesmerizing story of split-second choices and courageous acts that propel Victoria away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope and her own untapped strength.
Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life forever.
Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettable characters and a breathtaking natural setting, it is a sweeping story of survival and becoming, of the deepest mysteries of love, truth and fate.
