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Pick up the next book club selection at the Manchester library service desk following the previous month's meeting on the 3rd Monday of the month. **NOTE Meetings in January and February each year are held on the FOURTH Monday of the month due to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and President's Day holidays

This month we are discussing: These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

From the Publisher:

“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart.

At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both.