Virtual Book Discussion Group with Twinbrook Library

Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is the 2020 recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival Award. To reserve a copy of "Unsheltered" and schedule a Holds2Go pick-up appointment, please call 240-777-0240.

This event is presented by Montgomery County Public Libraries as a lead-up to the 24th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival.  This year's festival will be held virtually, with events on September 24, October 2, and October 3. The theme of the 2020 Festival is “Literature and Social Justice.” For more information, go to https://fscottfestival.org/

“Kingsolver’s dual narrative works beautifully. By giving us a family and a world teetering on the brink in 2016, and conveying a different but connected type of 19th-century teetering, Kingsolver creates a sense…that as humans we’re inevitably connected through the possibility of collapse, whether it’s the collapse of our houses, our bodies, logic, the social order or earth itself…In this engaged and absorbing novel, the two narratives reflect each other, reminding us of the dependability and adaptiveness of our drive toward survival.” (Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book Review, 10/19/2018; retrieved from Amazon, 8/24/2020)

Join this live session by clicking on the highlighted link or by cutting and pasting the link into your web browser.  You may be asked to download a free app (takes only a few seconds), but no Zoom account is required to participate.

All residents of Montgomery County are welcome to attend.

For security reasons, this program session will be locked 5 minutes after it begins. Please log in promptly.

Join us in Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95799726000

Or Dial In: 301-715-8592; Meeting ID: 957 9972 6000

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An e-audio version of Unsheltered is available from Hoopla at https://www.hoopladigital.com/search?page=1&q=unsheltered&scope=everything&type=direct

An e-book version of Unsheltered is available from Overdrive athttps://mcplmd.overdrive.com/search?query=unsheltered

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