March's Middletown Book for Discussion on Zoom: The Grapes of Wrath

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The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, March 30.  Our title is John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of environmental disaster and economic ruin:

"The epic story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  All of our statewide delivery services are up and running.  We do have our curbside pickup operating as well as in-house pickup.
  
• Amazon has the paperback, Kindle, and audiobook available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  On February 23rd, the members of the group also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Women of Copper Country, Mary Doria Russell
• The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
• One Size Fits None, Stephanie Anderson
• Devolution, Max Brooks
• Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
• The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
• The Survivors, Jane Harper 
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison
• The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah (which led us to read the Grapes of Wrath this time)
• The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu
• Blindness, Jose Saramago
• Tokyo Ueno Station, Yu Miri
• The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante

We will meet at 12 pm on the 30th in Zoom at 

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Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

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