Classics Book Club: The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Adult
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The library's Classics Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 PM. All are welcome.

Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.

No registration required.

Throughout the summer, this book club will be held at Earth Eagle Brewings in Portsmouth.

For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
Tuesday July 5 | 7 PM

In scene after memorable scene of Sarah Orne Jewett's fictional masterpiece, The Country of Pointed Firs, the Maine-born author recorded what she felt were the rapidly disappearing traditions, manners, and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the twentieth century. In luminous evocations of their lives — a happy family reunion, an old seaman's ghostly vision, a disappointed lover's self-imposed exile, and more — Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of the New England character.