Register here: https://delcolibraries.libcal.com/event/15582442
Come meet new people and share a love of books, both new and old! We provide the books, and a space for discussion!
Advance Registration is required.
Please call the library at 610-789-4440 if you need assistance with online registration.
Sellers Memorial Branch
76 South State Rd.
Upper Darby, PA 19082
***PLEASE NOTE***
Our meeting takes place on the second floor of the old Sellers Building (now the children's library), which does not have elevator or escalator access. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.
THIS MONTH'S BOOK BLURB:
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead:
When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly).
