Book Talk

Current Book
October 2024

We will meet on Saturday, October 26, 2024
at Riversedge (160 Kent St., Portland, MI)
at 9:15 a..m. for breakfast to discuss the book

The Life She Was Given
by Ellen Marie Wiseman

From acclaimed author Ellen Marie Wiseman comes a vivid, daring novel about the devatating power of family secrets-beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the tranformative 1950's.
 
About The Author
Ellen Marie Wiseman is the New York Times bestselling author of the highly acclaimed historical fiction novels The Orphan Collector, What She Left Behind, The Plum Tree, Coal River, The Life She Was Given, and her forthcoming release, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook. Born and raised in Three Mile Bay, a tiny hamlet in Northern New York, she’s a
first-generation German American who discovered her love of reading and writing while attending first grade in one of the last one-room schoolhouses in New York State. Since then, her novels have been published worldwide, translated into eighteen languages, and named to “Best Of” lists by Reading Group Choices, Good Housekeeping, Goodreads, The Historical Novel Society, Great Group Reads, and more. A mother of two, Ellen lives on the shores of Lake Ontario with her husband and dogs. 

​Book Talk
Our book club is very casual and welcoming. 
Please plan to join us whether you read the book or not. 
We do discuss the book, but it's also about the fellowship.  The more the merrier!

Please feel free to contact us to confirm the date/time/location
for our Book Talk, as sometimes we do have to change it on short notice.  Our contact
information can be found by clicking on the Contact tab at the top of the page.
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Click on the Book List tab near the top of the page for a
complete list of the books that Book Talk has read.  

Information about the author and the book from: ellenmariewiseman.com
This web-page updated 10-1-2024