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January 2010 Book Club "Big Stone Gap" by Adriana Trigiani

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Hello Everyone, Unless you are lucky enough to have planned your island vacation this week, like me, you are probably tucked inside a mountain of white snow reading our next book, Help by Kathryn Stockett. This book is a perfect transition from the southern setting of our January read Adriana Trigiani’s Big Stone Gap, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, to the deeper southern roots of our country, Jackson, Mississippi. The story takes place at the onset of the volatile civil rights movement of the Kennedy years. With that in mind, the next discussion will be invariably enlightening; so if you missed the last meeting held at Panera Bread on Thursday, January 22, you may try to make it to the next “Panera” meeting slated for Thursday, February 25 at 6:30 P.M. Members who were present at our January discussion were Barb, Becky, Cheryl, Ginnie, Jody, Lori, and me. All of the book reviews on Big Stone Gap were right on the nose. No one lost on this one. “Funny, charming, and origi...