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Book Talk – Book Club

February 11 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

This month we are reading The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian.  Books are available to pick up in the library.

Katie Barstow, Hollywood’s hottest young actress, plans her honeymoon as a Serengeti safari and invites her brother, sister-in-law, and a coterie of industry friends and colleagues to come along. It’s the mid-1960s, and the pampered travelers drop into a world roiled by geopolitical crises as the grip of colonialism is being challenged by Native uprisings, each side manipulated by Russian and U.S. counterintelligence agencies mired in escalating Cold War tensions. No sooner do their guides set up camp then they are overtaken by kidnappers, and those who are not immediately killed or tortured are taken hostage. The travelers are oblivious to these outside forces, however, and naively cling to the belief that rescue is at hand. She’s Katie Barstow, after all. The novel’s opening action may burst forth with a deadly ambush but Bohjalian doesn’t blindside loyal readers who have come to expect his signature combination of exotic locations, titillating characters, and energetic pacing. Stark and dark, violent and vivid, this may be versatile Bohjalian’s most harrowing work since Skeletons of the Feast (2008). Intimately researched, the Serengeti’s beauty and brutality are vibrantly infused in every scene, a grounding counterpoint to the competing dynamics of human cruelty and compassion.

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Date:
February 11
Time:
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Stillwater County Library’
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406-322-5009
Email
slibrary@stillwatercountylibrary.org

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Stillwater County Library
27 N 4th St
Columbus, MT 59019 United States
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