Virtual: Book Group: Finding Meaning Through Reading With Naomi McEneely

For twenty-one years, Naomi worked at an independent  bookstore.  At the bookstore, she organized and led several book clubs a month, along with setting up panels with authors that write for book clubs. Naomi also created a partnership with 22 libraries, 45 schools and 15 not-for-profit organizations.

Truth in Advertising by John Kenney

Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn’t know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he’s a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He’s recently called off his wedding. Now, a few days before Christmas, he’s forced to cancel a long-postponed vacation in order to write, produce, and edit a Superbowl commercial for his diaper account in record time.

Fortunately, it gets worse. He learns that his long-estranged and once-abusive father has fallen ill. And that neither his brothers nor his sister intend to visit. It’s a wake-up call for Fin to re-evaluate the choices he’s made, admit that he’s falling for his coworker Phoebe, question the importance of diapers in his life, and finally tell the truth about his life and his past.

Novelist John Kenney, a regular New Yorker contributor, mines his own advertising background to creating this moving debut, nothing short of “a masterful blend of wit and seriousness, stunning in its honesty” (Booklist, starred review).

Please note:

*Registration ends 8:00 pm on November 16th

*Log in will be available 15 minutes prior to program start time.

* An email with the registration link and instructions will be sent the evening before the program