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May Bestseller Book Club: A Short Walk Through a Wide World
May 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Super excited about this month’s pick – A Short Walk through a Wide World by debut novelist Douglas Westerbeke is part Addie LaRue, part Starless Sea, part Life of Pi and ALL mesmerizing!
As always, this book club pick is available for 10% off (book club pricing) and the evening at our in-house book club includes free treats and wine – you just bring the scintillating conversation – and we expect some incredible conversation around this winner!
Think The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi or A Starless Sea. This is an epic debut that chronicles an incredible life of a woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a curse that will kill her if she stops too long in any one place! Intriguing, right?
It all begins in Paris in 1885, when nine-year-old Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn childl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her way home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she suddenly begins to bleed to death.
When medical treatment only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that inexplicably keeps her alive. So begins her lifelong journey on the run from her condition, which won’t allow her to stay anywhere for longer than a few days nor –and here’s the kicker– return to any place where she’s already been.
From the dunes of the Calashino Sand Sea to the snow-packed peaks of the Himalayas; from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard, to the shelves of an infinite underground library, we are tethered to Aubry as she is tethered to her curse. She learns what it takes to survive and ultimately, to truly live. But the longer Aubry wanders and the more desperate she is to share her life with others, the clearer it becomes that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone else’s…
Forced to be fiercely independent and yet somehow hopeful and full of longing, Aubry becomes an unforgettable character fighting her way through a world of wonders, all to find a safe place she can call home. This really is a spellbinding and inspiring story about discovering meaning in a life that seems otherwise impossible. And at its core, it should remind each of us that it’s not the destination, but rather the journey, that makes us who we are.