Chapters & Cheers: a Monthly Book Club at Uva Wine Bar 🍷 📚

Join us in December as we discuss The Comfort Book, by Matt Haig. Here's a brief description of this uplifting non-fiction book. Here's a brief description:

The Comfort Book is Haig’s life raft: It’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.

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This book is available at the Pikes Peak Library.

Join us in January as we discuss, The Night Watchman, by Louis Erdrich. Here's a brief description:

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.

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This book is available at the Pikes Peak Library.

Join us in February as we discuss, Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. Here's a brief description:

Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man who is invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Yet his powerfully depicted adventures - from a terrifying Harlem race riot to his expulsion from a Southern college - go far beyond the story of one man. The lives of countless millions are evoked in this superb portrait of a generation of black Americans.

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This book is available at the Pikes Peak Library.