Book Club will be meeting on Wednesday, March 17th at 12:30 in
the lower level of the library. The book we will be discussing
is Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. There are copies
available at the library. We encourage you to join us, whether
you have read the book or not.
Synopsis:
In a bourgeois apartment building in Paris, we encounter Renée,
an intelligent, philosophical, and cultured concierge who masks
herself as the stereotypical uneducated “super” to avoid
suspicion from the building’s pretentious inhabitants. Also
living in the building is Paloma, the adolescent daughter of a
parliamentarian, who has decided to commit suicide on her
thirteenth birthday because she cannot bear to live among the
rich. Although they are passing strangers, it is through Renée’s
observations and Paloma’s journal entries that The Elegance of
the Hedgehog reveals the absurd lives of the wealthy. That is
until a Japanese businessman moves into the building and brings
the two characters together.
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"Why not go
out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
-Will Rogers"
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