MCCC Book Club

The MCCC book club is open to all MCCC employees and students. The club was started by the Library Staff in Winter 2023, with a new book being selected to read each semester. The book club meets two times per semester at 12:30 in the Library. It is a fun, lunchtime club that encourages thoughtful opinions and discussions. The best part of the club has been getting to know people from all across campus through a shared joy of reading.

Students are welcome to join club, but we would also like to encourage them to consider joining the student led book club run by SLAC (The Student Library Advisory Club).

For more information about either club, please stop by the Library or email Elizabeth Hartig (ehartig@monroeccc.edu).

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

MCCC Library PS3566.A7756 T66 2023

In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional acuity, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most acclaimed literary talents working today.