Join a new online book group called The Hoopla Huddle, which will include books you can download through Hoopla. This month we’ll be reading Bad Ideas by Missy Marston. The discussion will be held online on May 11th at 3:00 PM using a communication website/app known as Zoom.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Trudy works nights in a linen factory, avoiding romance and sharing the care of her four-year-old niece with Trudy’s mother, Claire. Claire still pines for Trudy’s father, a St. Lawrence Seaway construction worker who left her twenty years ago. Claire believes in true love. Trudy does not. She’s keeping herself to herself. But when Jules Tremblay, aspiring daredevil, walks into the Jubilee restaurant, Trudy’s a goner.
Loosely inspired by Ken “The Crazy Canuck” Carter’s attempt to jump the St. Lawrence River in a rocket car, and set in a 1970s hollowed-out town in eastern Ontario, Bad Ideas paints an indelible portrait of people on the forgotten fringes of life. Witty and wise, this is a novel that will stay with you a long time.
If you’re interested in participating, please send an email to irondequoit@libraryweb.org for further instructions on how to use Zoom and to receive the meeting number and password for the online chat.
Published on May 1, 2020.
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