Book Club Meet Up

Our February book club meeting will be on Feb 19 at 6:30 PM at the Public House in Springfield. We will have a little rainbow sign at the table.

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