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White Oak Wednesday Evening Book Discussion

2026-12-09 18:30:00 2026-12-09 19:45:00 America/New_York White Oak Wednesday Evening Book Discussion Join us to discuss My Friends by Frederick Backman. White Oak Library -

Wednesday, December 09
6:30pm - 7:45pm

Join us to discuss My Friends by Frederick Backman.

See below for an extract from a summary from Goodreads.com

Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. ...

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. ...

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