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I keep imagining an old school mixer with the Mystery folks on one side and the Thursday Night folks on the other - and then a great song comes on the radio and the ice is broken because no one can ignore a great song! In this case, it will be a great book - The Road to Dalton - this year's community read. We discuss it as a big group on this night, and two weeks later, Shannon Bowring will be in town for the big final event. Perfect! Now we just have to find the perfect song...About the book: In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves the community reeling. In the aftermath, their problems, both small and large, reveal a deeper understanding of the lives of their neighbors, and remind us all that no one is exactly who we think they are.
It's 1990. In Dalton, Maine, life goes on. Rose goes to work at the diner every day, her bruises hidden from both the customers and her two young boys. At a table she waits, Dr. Richard Haskell looks back on the one choice that's charted his entire life, before his thoughts wander back to his wife, Trudy, and her best friend. Trudy and Bev have been friends for longer than they can count, and something more than lovers to each other for some time now--a fact both accepted and ignored by their husbands. Across town, new mother Bridget lives with her high school sweetheart Nate, and is struggling with postpartum after a traumatic birth. And nearer still is teenager Greg, trying to define the complicated feelings he has about himself and his two close friends.
The Road to Dalton offers valuable understandings of what it means to be alive in the world--of pain and joy, conflict and love, and the endurance that comes from living.
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White Birch Books, 2594 White Mountain Hwy, North Conway, NH 03860-5221, United States,North Conway, New Hampshire