A benefit for all Music Hall members, Book Club meets on the second Monday of the month in the lounge at Portwalk Place from 6-7:30pm. Evenings include time for socializing followed by a moderated discussion. This month’s title is The Overstory by Richard Powers.

About the Book:

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

Author Richard Powers will appear on October 1 for his new novel, Playground, as part of Writers on a New England Stage. Get your tickets to see Richard live here.

About Our Moderator:

About the moderator:
Brittany Wason is the Literary Producer at The Music Hall, booking author events for all of its stages. She is the co-editor of Maiden Magazine, an online literary magazine publishing new poetry and creative nonfiction, and worked in book publishing as an editor before joining The Music Hall’s team.