Saturday Breakfast Book Club: "A Calling For Charlie Barnes"

Join us for our Saturday Breakfast Book Club! Each month, we'll read one of the novels & memoirs the New York Times designates as its "Most Notable Books" from the preceding year while enjoying coffee and refreshments. 

Our July 2023 selection will be the acclaimed comic novel A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris. Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Discontent with life's compromises, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. Then, against all odds, something goes right for a change: Charlie is granted a second act. With help from his storyteller son, he surveys the facts of his life and finds his true calling where he least expects it—in a sacrifice that redounds with selflessness and love—at last becoming the man his son always knew he could be.

Copies of the book will be made available at the library's Circulation Desk. Please sign up below to participate in this month's discussion!