Our Page Turners general interest book discussion meets on the fourth Tuesday of every other month, January-September, at 6:30pm in the library’s Carnegie Meeting Room. We also meet the next day, Wednesday at 1pm, at the Stoughton Area Senior Center. Books will be available six weeks in advance on our top floor display near the elevator. If you’d like to receive email reminders about this group, please email storef [at] stolib.org (storef[at]stolib[dot]org)
January 28-29: I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
In 1989 Romania, seventeen-year-old Cristian is blackmailed into becoming a police informer. Rather than betraying everyone and everything he loves, he uses his position to unmask the truth behind the communist regime running his country.
March 25-26: We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammond
When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
May 27-28: This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel (title updated)
Rosie and Penn's child Claude tells them he wants to be a girl when he grows up. They want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be--they're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret, until one day it explodes.
July 22-23: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
When Mia's father doesn't come home from a walk in the local nature reserve, she doesn't think much of it. He must've turned off his phone. Or his battery died. Soon more questions arise and it becomes clear to Mia and her family that he is missing. Or is he?
September 23-24: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
This classic explores the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. East of Eden is both a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.
Mark your calendars for our Go Big Read discussions on November 18 and 19 (title to be announced)