Let's Talk About Books: Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Join Let's Talk About Books, a monthly book club that is currently meeting via Zoom.  

The meeting is free and open to everyone interested, whether they have read the book or not.

For our February meeting, we will be reading Plainsong by Kent Haruf with the hour-long discussion being led by Marilyn Barouch.  Copies are available at the main desk for checkout. The eBook is available on Libby.

Synopsis:

National Book Award Finalist

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.

In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.

A copy of the meeting's link will go out the Monday leading up to the event.  Another email with the meeting's link will also go out the Friday morning of the event.