Book Club Meet Up

We are moving to a TBD location for the February meeting. If you came last month and read “Lookout”, please message me for more info.

Otherwise, we will be back at the Public House for the March meeting!

More info on this month’s book:

We are reading “Lookout”’by Christine Byl.

We recommend ordering it from Bookshop.org
or checking the local library.

**LOOKOUT received a 2023 Montana Book Award Honor and was short-listed for the Center for Fiction's 2023 First Novel prize **

You can order Lookout from [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/p/books/lookout-christine-byl/18099112?ean=9781646052295),
directly from Deep Vellum/A Strange Object, in addition to Amazon. Best of all, ask your local bookstore to order you a copy. Ask your library to carry it. Thank you for supporting independent booksellers whenever possible!

Christine Byl's debut novel, Lookout, about a close-knit and complicated rural family in Western Montana, spans the latter half of the 20th century & the beginning of the next. Lookout retools the mythic American west to encompass the social and emotional pressures that underlie a family's
life on the land.

For more information, to order, and to read reviews, please visit Lookout.

Byl’s gift to readers is refusal of stereotype and received language about a place often and easily stereotyped. In the absence of labels for what we think we ought to know about place and people, Byl allows a world of nuance to come to life.
--[Jessica Johnson, Terrain.org](https://www.terrain.org/2023/reviews-reads/lookout/?fbclid=IwAR1adflITB5EuAv92hWWc0y-7sb4sqCV3WC-fEXyJsg99W1ZpinwrE8bEUM)

“The sense of community, family, and buried secrets at its heart is almost tactile in its presence. A deeply felt, unconventionally told family story.”
-Kirkus Reviews

"Byl's slow-burning and poignant debut novel follows a Montana family across decades (and) gently excavates (a) complicated interior life. Readers will find much to savor."
--Publishers Weekly