Between the Lines Book Club reads “This Other Eden”
Interested in joining a book club? Try our Between the Lines Book Club! We have three different sessions including afternoons and an evening to ensure there’s a time that works for you! Did we mention there’s FREE refreshments?
This month we’ll be discussing “This Other Eden” by Paul Harding! Stop by the Aurora or Dillsboro Library to pick up your copy today!
Aurora: Tuesday, April 1st @ 6 pm
Aurora: Thursday, April 3rd @ 1 pm
Dillsboro: Friday, April 4th @ 1 pm
“Benjamin Honey- American, Bantu, Igbo- born enslaved- freed or fled at fifteen- aspiring orchardist, arrived on the island with his Irish wife, Patience, and discovered they could make a life together there. More than a century later, the Honeys’ descendants remain, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors. Then comes the intrusion of ‘civilization’: officials determine to ‘cleanse’ the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities’ institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah’s Ark.” -Goodreads
