Ashland Book Club - Adults - Ashland

Join us each month as this group will choose a book to read collectively and then discuss our thoughts on what we have read.

July: Groundskeeping by: Lee Cole 

 In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course.

Here he meets Alma Hazdic, a writer in residence who seems to have everything Owen lacks--a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma--who comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants--struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with family and home.

If you would like more information, contact Tiffany at tseibert@thebookplace.org. Books are available to pick up at the Ashland branch anytime the library is open. Adults only.