Chevy Chase Fiction Book Club - Native American Heritage Month

Join us as we discuss a fiction selection; the title is announced one month prior to the meeting.

The Chevy Chase Library elevator currently out of service and undergoing modernization replacement. This program is held in the downstairs meeting room, and it is only accessible by the stairs.

"An eight-year-old girl is sent to live with her flinty grandparents while her mother has a baby, carefully fitting herself into their hard-bitten lives as they run a small grocery store and butcher shop overseen by a fierce guard dog. School is not much safer when a presentation of “dangerous exotic creatures,” including an enormous python, veers out of control. The title story, the first in this enrapturing collection set primarily in Erdrich’s centering place, Minnesota, is saturated with feelings while wild, hilarious, and cruel acts and accidents occur in rapid succession. Each dramatic tale that follows, however distinct, generates a similar incandescent intensity. Dora's niece insists on hearing the stories of Dora's four water-damaged wedding dresses. A boa constrictor signifies the drastic troubles plaguing the son of a woman running a tribal newspaper. “The Hollow Children” reveals the thoughts of a farmer and part-time schoolteacher driving a full school bus through a deadly 1923 blizzard. “Love of My Days” is a riveting nineteenth-century outlaw tale. Erdrich glides into the future in two chilling tales about the corporate digital takeover of the afterlife. Spanning two writing decades, these profound and resplendent stories are shaped by wit, artistry, and wisdom as Erdrich traces the weave of life that intricately meshes humans with each other, animals, earth, sky, and spirit.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Erdrich is always on readers to-be-read lists and her admirers and all short-story lovers will be drawn to this landmark book, her first story collection since The Red Convertible (2009)." Catalog

Louise Erdrich does not have an official personal website, but her independent bookstore, Birchbark Books, serves as her primary online hub and features her writings and blog. [1, 2, 3]

Join our friendly book group! Each month we read either a non-fiction (first Wednesday at 3:30) or fiction (third Wednesday at 3:30) selection. Titles are announced a month before,and copies are available at the Circulaiton Desk. Discussion questions are provided with the selection.

Want to read more fiction? Enjoy other fiction titles in our MCPL catalog.  

Questions about this program? Contact Chevy Chase Library at: 240-773-9590

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