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NOTE: THERE ARE NO PHYSICAL TICKETS FOR OUR EVENTS. YOU WILL BE ADDED TO THE GUEST LIST. BOOK BOXES WILL BE DELIVERED OR AVAILABLE FOR PICKUP BETWEEN JUNE 1ST AND 3RD. YOU WILL RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION EMAIL. TICKETS FOR EVENTS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.**
*Tickets are limited for this intimate event.
Our Book Club in collaboration with The Bruce Hotel.
We’re partnering up with The Bruce Hotel to host monthly gatherings in their lobby. At the start of each month we’ll deliver to your door the Book of the Month, a little treat or gift, and a voucher for a glass of wine (or other beverage) to redeem during our Book Club meeting to be held at the end of the month.
Dates for June - The Book Lovers Club Subscription Box
June 1st to 3rd - Free local delivery of the June Book Lovers Subscription Box (includes a signed copy of the book, a little gift, and a voucher to redeem for a drink at the meeting). The box can also be picked up at The Bruce Hotel or SAL's BOOK BAR.
Monday June 29th - 6pm to 8pm - Book Club Meeting in the lobby of The Bruce Hotel
About the Book: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
“Let’s hope that this fine author continues steadily along her path, delivering unto her loyal readers story upon story, gift upon gift.”—The Guardian
“Strout’s capacious empathy and rigorous attention to the nuances of human behavior and psychology are as evident as ever in The Things We Never Say. She has always been unafraid to go to the darkest places in human experience, confronting hideous abuse, unfathomable suffering, and profound despair with unflinching honesty.”—The Boston Globe
“Strout has a signature ability to make me feel for her characters . . . in her careful, close observations, his depths become increasingly legible. You wish he were not experiencing this pain, but you understand where it is coming from . . . The result is a reading experience of both great warmth and great worry. I don’t know anyone else doing it quite like this today.”—Chicago Tribune
“This is a profound, resplendent novel that stares our present moment in the face while throwing a lifeboat to cling to in the storm.”—Financial Times
“Strout develops a rich story around the distance between people who think they’ve fostered a certain intimacy.”—Cultured
“The Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist unveils a fresh setting and troupe of characters that lifts her literary game with energized prose and gimlet-eyed insights.”—Time
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “profound, resplendent novel”* from Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout, a chance incident sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher’s life
“Strout’s capacious empathy and rigorous attention to the nuances of human behavior and psychology are as evident as ever.”—The Boston Globe
“Artie Dam is someone you may never be able to forget.”—Financial Times*
Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad—at himself and the people around him—and turns a question over and over in his mind: How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us?
And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear—and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence.
Elizabeth Strout, as we have come to expect, delivers a moving exploration of the human condition—one that brims with compassion for each and every one of her indelible characters. With exquisite prose and profound insight, The Things We Never Say takes one man’s fears and loneliness and makes them universal. And in the same breath, captures the abiding love that sustains and holds us all.
About the Author: Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Everything; Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London.
