Germantown Novel Views Book Club - In-person

Join the Germantown Novel Views Book Club to discuss "The Great Alone" by Kristin Hannah.

The Novel Views Book Club will meet in Meeting Room A, located on the lower level of the library.

"Hannah takes readers on a journey to Alaska in the 1970s with the Allbright family: damaged Vietnam vet Ernt; his devoted wife, Cora; and their 13-year-old daughter, Leni, the novel's protagonist. Initially unhappy to leave her Seattle home, Leni soon falls in love with the wilds of remote Kaneq. Leni adjusts to the lack of electricity, running water, and indoor plumbing, but her father's increasingly erratic and violent behavior is much harder to endure. Leni finds an escape in her books and her one-room school, where she meets Matthew, the only other kid her age in the area. Matthew becomes Leni's best friend and eventually her first love. But Leni's father's irrational hatred of Matthew's family threatens to keep them apart, and Leni fears her father's uncontrollable rage could be the death of her and her fragile mother. Though smaller in scope than her previous blockbuster, in this tightly focused drama, Hannah vividly evokes the natural beauty and danger of Alaska and paints a compelling portrait of a family in crisis and a community on the brink of change." --Booklist

Print copies of The Great Alone may be available at the Germantown Library after August 3, 2022.  It is also available as an eBook or eAudiobook.

Overdrive/Libby eBook: https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/3243036 

Overdrive/Libby eAudiobook: https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/3377668 

Hoopla eAudiobook: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12344352 

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