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Thursday, December 12, 2019
EVENT FOR ADULTS
Adult Book Discussion
Thursday December 5 at 10:00am
In the downstairs Archer Room (through the lobby stairwell)
Sign-up Required
(event is over)
ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by GAIL HONEYMAN. Eleanor Oliphant , the friendless 29-year-old finance clerk in a small Scottish graphics design firm, feels safest in the cocoon of strict routines both at work and at home. Unfazed by office gossip about her peculiarities (she acknowledges that her coworkers have a point), Eleanor's careful firewalls start to crack. She simultaneously develops a crush on a bar musician and is reluctantly drawn into a tentative friendship with Raymond, the new IT guy, and with Sammy, an older man whose life she and Raymond save. Without a shred of self-pity and lacking nearly all social skills (but willing to learn them) owing to her shocking, savage past, Eleanor is unaware of her ability to charm and inspire those who want to help her and those who grow to care for her. VERDICT Honeyman's exquisite, heartbreaking, funny, and irresistible novel brings to life a character so original and pitch-perfect that it is nearly impossible to believe this is a debut. Surprises abound as the author boldly turns literary expectations upside down and gives to her readers Eleanor Oliphant , who, yes, is completely , beautifully fine (LIBRARY JOURNAL).
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