December Book Club - The Giver of Stars

**UPDATE** We are going to meet at Common Space in Ardmore. The address is 301 East County Line Road Ardmore, PA. Street parking is available. This is a 'common space' and we will be the only ones using it this evening. We are welcome to bring food / drinks, but as this is not a restaurant there will not be food for purchase. I will make sure to bring cookies for everyone!

We're going to meet the week after Thanksgivings instead of the Wednesday before and for December we'll be reading Jojo Moyes The Giver of Stars.

New for December: A majority of people indicated they were interested in doing a used book exchange for the holiday. If you are interested/able please bring one gently used and loved book to exchange with the group.

Description: Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically.

The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky.

What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives.

Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic–a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.