The Second Saturday Book Club for adults will focus on different genres throughout the year and meets on the second Saturday morning each month at the Goshen Library to discuss the current book. August's genre will be contemporary fiction and our selection is Groundskeeping by Lee Cole. You can pick up a copy of the book at your preferred branch. Registration required (see below). Please add a note to your registration if you don't need a copy of the book. If you have any questions, please email Brian at brianw@oldhampl.org. Coffee and snacks provided.
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course.
Here he meets Alma Hazdic, a writer in residence who seems to have everything Owen lacks--a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma--who comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants--struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with family and home.
Exquisitely written; expertly crafted; dazzling in its precision, restraint, and depth of feeling, Groundskeeping is a novel of haunting power and grace from a prodigiously gifted writer.
