Evening Book Group: Small Things Like These
The SBPL Evening Book Group meets in the Community Room on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Enjoy a stimulating conversation about books and exchange perspectives about characters and plot while getting to know your neighbors. In March we are reading Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.
**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024**
**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024**
A New York Times Bestseller
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
The Irish Times Best Book of the 21st Century
Read the book before you see the new movie starring Cillian Murphy.
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
An international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from a masterful writer.
Claire Keegan's internationally acclaimed fiction has been translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award -- the world's richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and Author of the Year, 2023.
From Library Journal: Keegan indicts the social culture that enabled Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and brilliantly articulates a decent person's struggle of conscience. Keegan's beautiful prose is quiet and precise. Highly recommended.
Print, ebooks and downloadable audiobook copies will be available to borrow from the Library or Libby. Email sbplprograms@southburlingtonvt.gov or call 802-846-4140 if you have questions, would like the Zoom link, or want to be added to the email list for this group.
