Wild Card Book Club-How to Read a Book by Monica Wood

Join booksellers Amy and Diane to chat about Monica Wood’s moving novel of books, second chances, and unexpected connections. Wild Card Book Club Booksellers Amy and Diane bring you another amazing read and evening of conversation about How to Read a Book by Monica Wood. Join them at Parcero Wine Bar for a glass of wine and an evening of community, conversation, and the collective love of a good read. Ticket includes a copy of How to Read a Book and $10 towards your purchase at Parcero Wine Bar. • Come to meet new people and have a great conversation! • Discussion led by Rediscovered Books Booksellers, Amy and Diane. • Seating is limited to 12 participants, registration is required for each person. • Haven’t finished the book? Come anyway, but we cannot promise no spoilers. • Limited number of partner tickets available (2 people, 2 vouchers, and 1 book). • Must be 21 or older to attend. If you have already purchased the book from Rediscovered Books, please email a copy of your receipt to [email protected] and we will issue you a gift card equal to the cost of the book after you have registered. About the Book: Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine Daigle... In this emotional book club fiction, Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland--Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman--their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways. How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about forgiveness, letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. With the heart, wit, grace, and depth of understanding that has characterized her work, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living.