Join us for a discussion of the 2026-27 Go Big Read, Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive by Eliot Stein.

*Copies of the book are available at both service desks*

Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. From a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old soy sauce recipe to the last Inca bridge master who rebuilds a grass-woven bridge each year in the Peruvian highlands, Stein uncovers an almost lost world.

Custodians of Wonder tells the stories of the last custodians preserving age-old rites on the brink of disappearance.