Library To Host Zoom Discussion On Bestseller 'The Library Book'

Press release from Norwalk Public Library System:

Sept. 3, 2020

2020–Please join us on Thursday, September 24, at 3 p.m., when the Norwalk Public Library’s Not Your Usual Book Club will meet on Zoom for a lively discussion of The Library Book by Susan Orlean, led by moderator Susannah Violino. The book is available to Norwalk library cardholders in print, and in ebook and eaudiobook versions on Overdrive. Please contact Susannah at sviolino@norwalkpl.org to register, and for information about joining this live program.

Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?

“A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York

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