The group will meet the first Thursday of each month at 1:15 pm. All comers welcome. Join this afternoon book group for friendly and pithy conversation. Open to one and all. Copies of the book will be available at the 1st floor circulation desk. Please read it before the meeting.
From Booklist In a bourgeois apartment building in Paris, we encounter Renée, an intelligent, philosophical, and cultured concierge who masks herself as the stereotypical uneducated super to avoid suspicion from the building’s pretentious inhabitants. Also living in the building is Paloma, the adolescent daughter of a parliamentarian, who has decided to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday because she cannot bear to live among the rich. Although they are passing strangers, it is through Renée’s observations and Paloma’s journal entries that The Elegance of the Hedgehog reveals the absurd lives of the wealthy. That is until a Japanese businessman moves into the building and brings the two characters together. A critical success in France, the novel may strike a different chord with some readers in the U.S.—Paulson, Heather Copyright 2008 Booklist
This event sponsored by the Rye Free Reading Room.
