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Tuesday Afternoon Book Discussion

Chagrin Falls Branch

03/25 The Briar Club, by Kate Quinn; 04/22 The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley; 05/27 Mina's Matchbox, by Yoko Ogawa

Tuesday, March 25th, 2PM:  The Briar Club, by Kate Quinn

"Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman's daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women's baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy's Red Scare."

 Tuesday, April 22nd, 2PM: The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley

“... combines elements of time travel, romance, and political intrigue. Set in the near future, the story follows a young civil servant who gets a dream job offer. She soon discovers that her new role involves working for a secretive government ministry. This ministry, recently established, aims to test the feasibility of time travel. They do this by bringing individuals from various historical periods into the present."

Tuesday, May 27th, 2PM: Mina's Matchbox, by Yoko Ogawa

"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home--and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company--are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family's pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion--Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German great-aunt, and her dashing, charming uncle, who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling."

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