Next Book: Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl

Friday, July 10th, 7 pm - 8:30 pm

Books are available to purchase in-store and online at Bookshop.org. Library, used, and audiobooks are all welcome for participation in our book club!

Book Summary: Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents - her exuberant, creative mother and her steady, supportive father - and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child's transition to a caregiver.

Braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. Through her observations, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. Observing love and loss in the natural world helps us to process our own feelings of love and loss, and to grow closer to the wildlife that lives right here with us.