Remer Centennial Library Book Club
Our book club is a fun group of people who meet the last Thursday of the month at the library to compare notes on the most recent pick.
No pressure, no expense!
Our January Pick is:
Winter Garden
by
Kristin Hannah
Discussion: THURSDAY, Feb 6th, 2:00 PM
Everyone Welcome!
For more information call Gail Martin @ 218-566-2684
Some of our previous picks included:
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Taylor
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Crazy Little Town Called Love by Jill Hannah Anderson
Rosemary, The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larso
Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden
Singer by Kerry Casey
Fall to Grace by Kerry Case
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The To Hell & Back Club by Jill Hannah Anderson
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Readers of the Broken Wheel Recommend by Katrina Bivald
Synopsis of Winter Garden
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection between them was the Russian fairy tale Anya sometimes told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise from the women in his life: the fairy tale will be told one last time—and all the way to the end. Thus begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anya’s life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother’s life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are.
