Tue, Oct 28 · 7:00 PM EDT
The Spooky Book Club’s October selection is The Night Country by Stewart O’Nan.
Join us for a spook-tacular Halloween Spooky Book Club meeting and costume contest! Gather with fellow ghouls and goblins at Round Trip Brewery for our usual book discussion and a Halloween celebratiob. Show off your most creative, eerie, or hilarious costumes for a chance to win prizes. Costumes are encouraged but not required. We look forward to seeing you there for a hauntingly good time! I’ve scheduled this month’s meeting at 7pm, to give us a little more time to celebrate Halloween.
Book description:
At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living.
A strange and unsettling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson, The Night Country creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop whose guilty secret has destroyed his life; and Kyle's mom, trying to love the new son the doctors returned to her. As the day wanes and darkness falls, one of them puts a terrible plan into effect, and they find themselves caught in a collision of need and desire, watched over by the knowing ghosts.
Macabre and moving, The Night Country elevates every small town's bad high school crash into myth, finding the deeper human truth beneath a shared and very American tragedy. As in his highly-prized Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, once again Stewart O'Nan gives us an intimate look at people trying to hold on to hope, and the consequences when they fail.
