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Arts & Entertainment

Great Book Talk @Kelley Library

Ann Hood's novel The Knitting Circle will be discussed.

Please join us Wednesday March 25th at 7 PM. Copies of this book are available at the front desk.

“While mourning the death of her daughter, Hood (An Ornithologist’s Guide to Life) learned to knit. In her comeback novel, Mary Baxter, living in Hood’s own Providence, R.I., loses her five-year-old daughter to meningitis...the strength of the writing is in the painfully realistic portrayal of the stages of mourning, and though there’s a lot of knitting, both actual and metaphorical...” - Publisher’s Weekly

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