The Wednesday Evening Book Discussion Group reads both fiction and nonfiction titles, and is currently meeting virtually at 6:30pm on the fourth Wednesday of every month on Zoom. This group will meet on the third Wednesdays of November and December due to holidays. All are welcome to join the conversation!

The upcoming book selections will be available for pick up any time after the current month’s discussion, during service hours at the Port Angeles Main Library. Copies of the book will be available on a first come, first serve basis.

Library staff and volunteers will moderate the discussion. Sign in via Zoom link to see other participants, or call in to join the meeting.  No internet required to connect to the discussion by phone.

The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.