- Flynn Center/Fletcher Free Library Book Club
- Meeting dates below. Contact the Fletcher Free library for information on book selections, meeting dates, and registration at 802-865-7211. FREE!
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What not to miss this semester!
The Spaghetti Western Orchestra
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Wednesday, October 8 at 7:30 pm with Tom Corcoran
While not a western, this Pulitzer-Prize winning novel is as spare
as the old spaghetti westerns, and thematically similar. Set in a
post-apocalyptic near future, this bleak tale chronicles the
struggle for survival facing a man and his son in a barren and
hostile world. Much like the iconic Man With No Name of Sergio
Leone’s famed spaghetti western trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For
a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), the
father and son in The Road are faced with moral ambiguities and
questionable alliances in their search for answers.
MainStage Performance: Monday, October 27 at 7:30 pm
Noche Flamenca
"Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel" by Ana
Castillo
Wednesday, February 11 at 7:30 pm (Group
Leader TBA)
Castillo’s seductive novel flowers at the exotic intersection of
Chicago’s flamenco, Gypsy and Chicano communities, where
Carmen Santos, a defiant ex-flamenco dancer, struggles with the
end of her career and the dissolution of a passionate love
triangle. Left with a crippled leg after a childhood bout of polio,
Carmen has always been defined by those around her—her
parents, the school for the disabled she attended, her lovers and
her public, who know her as La Coja (the cripple).
MainStage Performance: Friday, February 13 at 8 pm
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: "Ferocious Beauty: Genome"
"Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible
Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and
How I Defied My Destiny" by Jessica Queller
Wednesday, March 11 at 7:30 pm (Group Leader TBA)
Queller was 31, single and healthy when her mother succumbed
to ovarian cancer at the age of 58, having battled breast cancer
six years earlier. Queller chronicles her mother’s long and
anguished struggle in vivid detail. After her mother’s death, at
the suggestion of an acquaintance, Queller opted to discover
whether she carries the breast cancer gene; indeed, she tested
positive for the BRCA-1 gene mutation, which gave her an 87%
chance of breast cancer before age 50 and a 44% chance of
ovarian cancer in her lifetime. With this knowledge in hand,
Queller began the journey toward her pivotal choice: a prophylactic
double mastectomy at age 35.
MainStage Performance: Saturday, March 7 at 8 pm
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