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Our December title is Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Copies will be available to pick up at the library. Please email Meaghan at [email protected] to be added to the Book Group email list.From Publisher:
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
*OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024*
*NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024*
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
#41 on the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century List
An NPR “Books We Love” selection
A Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” selection
People Magazine‘s “Book of the Week”
A Publishers Weekly “Holiday Gift Guide” selection
A Vanity Fair Best Short Books selection
One of the Sunday Times‘s 25 Best Novels of the 21st Century
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