Book discussion meets on the second Monday of each month at 1:30 p.m. and is open to all adult readers, even those who haven’t completed the reading. On February 14, at 1:30 the book club will meet to discuss, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award Finalist.
Soon to be a Netflix limited series from the producers of Stranger Things.
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
