Auburn Afternoon Book Group @ Auburn
This month the Auburn Afternoon Book Group will read and discuss the Overstory by Richard Powers.
"An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest."
The Auburn Afternoon Book Group primarily reads contemporary fiction but will occasionally include memoirs, classics and narrative nonficiton.
Free and open to the public. Space is limited. Registration is required. To register click the button below or contact the library for assistance. Copies of the book will be available to pick up at the Circulation Desk of the Auburn Branch Library.
Visit cranstonlibrary.org/book-groups to learn about other CPL book groups.
- Date:
- Tuesday, April 14, 2026 Show more dates
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Contact:
- Nomi Hague, nomihague@cranstonlibrary.org
- Location:
- Program Room
- Branch:
- Auburn Branch
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Book & Movie Groups