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SUMMARY:Helen Plum Library Book Club
UID:89902
DTSTAMP:20260415T173800Z
DTSTART:20260717T000000Z
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LOCATION:411 S. Main Street, Lombard, IL 60148, United States
ROOM: Conference Room
DESCRIPTION:The Cliffs by J. Courtney SullivanOn a secluded bluff overlook
 ing the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a ho
 me that contains a century's worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flana
 gan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned, and it 
 becomes a hideaway for Jane to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years la
 ter, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to Maine and is horrified t
 o find the house is now barely recognizable. The new owner, Genevieve, a s
 ummer person from Beacon Hill, has gutted it, transforming the house into 
 a glossy white monstrosity straight out of a shelter magazine. Strangely, 
 Genevieve is convinced that the house is haunted--perhaps the product of s
 omething troubling Genevieve herself has done. She hires Jane to research 
 the history of the place and the women who lived there. The story Jane unc
 overs--of lovers lost at sea, romantic longing, shattering loss, artistic 
 awakening, historical artifacts stolen and sold, and the long shadow of co
 lonialism--is even older than Maine itself. Enthralling and richly imagine
 d, this is a deeply moving novel about the land we inhabit, the women who 
 came before us, and the ways in which none of us will ever truly leave thi
 s earth.For all book clubs: Additional print copies are available at the L
 ibrary. Limited digital copies may be available. Please contact Adult Serv
 ices to check availability or for further information. Please register fo
 r one session only. 
URL:https://www.helenplum.org/event/helen-plum-library-book-club-89902
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