April book - The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Please join us for a discussion of this month's book. We will meet at McAllister's Deli in the glass room on the right side of the dining area once you enter the restaurant. The restaurant asks that members make some kind of purchase for the use of the room - even just a beverage. Most people grab a bite to eat while we chat about the book.

As a reminder, PLEASE try to keep your RSVP updated as best as possible.

From Amazon:
College student Joe Talbert has a writing assignment. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

As Joe writes about Carl's life, especially Carl's valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Aided by his skeptical neighbor, Lila, Joe throws himself into uncovering the truth. Thread by thread, he begins to unravel the tapestry of Carl's conviction. But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Will Joe discover the truth before it's too late to escape the fallout?