Brews and Bestsellers Book Club

Join our librarian, Colette for a discussion at Franco Martini Bar & Restaurant, 2025 Albany Post Road, Croton 10520.  The library will supply snacks for the group, but attendees are responsible for their drink of choice.

PLEASE REGISTER FOR ONLY ONE SESSION, EITHER Monday, June 15 OR Tuesday, June 16, via the library's Web site.

Experience the novel that redefined American literature by the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower, MacArthur “Genius," and Nebula and Hugo award winner. Selected by The Atlantic as one of the "most consequential novels of the past 100 years."

Octavia Butler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work, Kindred, tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him.

During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she’s been given: to protect this young slaveholder until he can father her own great-grandmother.

Author Octavia E. Butler skillfully juxtaposes the serious issues of slavery, human rights, and racial prejudice with an exciting science-fiction, romance, and historical adventure. 

Please register via the library's Web site if you plan to attend & notify us if you cancel.