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Birmingham Book Club

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

2025-08-19 14:00:00 2025-08-19 15:00:00 America/New_York Birmingham Book Club Good conversation, friendly faces and great books - that's what book club is all about. We're looking forward to seeing you at our lively and engaging book discussion. Birmingham - Meeting Room Upper (Capacity : 40)

Tuesday, August 19
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-08-19 14:00:00 2025-08-19 15:00:00 America/New_York Birmingham Book Club Good conversation, friendly faces and great books - that's what book club is all about. We're looking forward to seeing you at our lively and engaging book discussion. Birmingham - Meeting Room Upper (Capacity : 40)

Birmingham

Meeting Room Upper (Capacity : 40)

Good conversation, friendly faces and great books - that's what book club is all about. We're looking forward to seeing you at our lively and engaging book discussion.

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

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"History is a flood. The mighty red . . . In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker. Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter’s and her own. Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day. The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor"--From publisher website. 

AGE GROUP: | Adults (18+) |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Groups |

TAGS: | branchbookgroup |

Birmingham

Phone: 419.259.5210

Hours
We're closed Monday May 26 due to Memorial Day
Mon, May 26 Closed
(Memorial Day)
Tue, May 27 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Wed, May 28 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Thu, May 29 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Fri, May 30 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sat, May 31 Closed
Sun, Jun 01 Closed

About the branch
  • 12 public computers
  • 2 children's computers
  • Free Wifi
  • 100-person meeting room capacity/handicapped accessible
  • Faxing, copying, scanning
  • Parking25 parking spots/3 additional handicapped accessible
  • 6 bicycle spots

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