Our next Book Group meeting will be on Wednesday, April 22 from 7-9pm. Our meetings are held via Zoom.

Please join us here:
https://zoom.us/j/144736833

Selection:
Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell

Summary:
The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare’s eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play. The book is now a major motion picture.

A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.

The UUCG Book Group chooses books across various genres, with an eye toward what will provide substantial topics for discussion. When possible, we try to choose titles that are available at the Gwinnett County Public Library so that everyone can have access to the book. We have found that some of our favorite books have been those that have wide appeal.

All are welcome to join the discussion!

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Upcoming Selections:

May 2026: Abundance, by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson

June 2026: Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist, by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

July 22, 2026: The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese

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