Join us to discuss the novel "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter.
About this month's title:
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, deep in daydreams, looks out over the waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot--searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
A limited number of physical copies of the selected title are available in advance at the Belt Branch for check out. eBook and eAudio versions are also available on Overdrive, and unlimited eBook copies on Hoopla.
This program is for adults 18+.
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