Name: Next Page Book & Social Club
Start: 2024-07-17T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-17T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Next Page Books of Cedar Rapids

The July pick for the Next Page Book & Social Club is The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue. We’ll gather in the courtyard next to the building, weather permitting, at 6:30pm on Wednesday, July 17. Please remember to bring a lawn/camp chair, if possible.
"Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of a financial crash looms before them. When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred's glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife." (Knopf)
The Next Page Book & Social Club is open to anyone who enjoys reading good books and engaging in free-wheeling conversations. For more information, contact the store by calling 319.247.2665 or emailing [email protected]. Hope to see you on the 17th!