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NEPM Book Club

NEPM Book Club: "Fire Exit" by Morgan Talty. Join us Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 at 7 p.m. Sponsored by Coopers Corner & State Street Deli, Whalen Insurance, Summerlin Floors, Broadside Bookshop and UMass Five Credit Union.

Do you love to read? So do we! Join us for the NEPM Book Club —  a quarterly virtual meet-up dedicated to bringing NEPM friends together to chat about new, diverse and interesting fiction.

Our next meeting will be Thursday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. We'll be reading "Fire Exit" by Morgan Talty.

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The NEPM Book Club is sponsored by Cooper's Corner and State Street Deli & Fruit Store, Whalen Insurance, Summerlin Floors, Broadside Bookshop and UMass Five Credit Union.

ABOUT THE NOVEL

From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth’s life―from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there’s something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from her and the rest of the tribal community. It’s the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep.

Now, it’s been weeks since he’s seen Elizabeth, and Charles is worried. As he attempts to hold on to and care for what he can―his home and property; his alcoholic and bighearted friend Bobby; and his mother, Louise, who is slipping deeper into dementia―he becomes increasingly haunted by his past. Forced to confront a lost childhood on the reservation, a love affair cut short, and the death of his beloved stepfather, Fredrick, Charles contends with questions he’s long been afraid to ask. Is his secret about Elizabeth his to share? And would his daughter want to know the truth, even if it could cost her everything she’s ever known?

From the award-winning author of "Night of the Living Rez," comes a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.

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MEET THE BOOK CLUB HOST

Erin O’Neill is a dedicated bibliophile and NEPM’s digital marketing and social media manager. A lifelong obsessive reader and lover of stories, Erin hosts and organizes NEPM Book Club meetings — and comes up with discussion questions!

GET THE BOOK

Need to get your copy of the latest Book Club selection?  Please consider buying from one of our local NEPM Book Club partners:

Broadside Bookshop in Northampton »

Massive Bookshop, an online bookseller in Greenfield »

Olive Tree Books-n-Voices in Springfield »

Or, pick up "Fire Exit" from your local library.

CW Mars library catalog »

UPCOMING MEETINGS

NEPM Book Club members can help select books for us to read. Do you have a favorite novel? Is there a piece of fiction that’s on your to-read list? Email your suggestions to bookclub@nepm.org!

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