The New Lebanon Book Group will discuss Amy Bloom’s highly praised 2007 novel Away, at its two upcoming meetings in October and November. The First discussion will be on Sunday, October 19, at 11 am at Hitchcock House B & B, located on Route 22 in New Lebanon, 1.2 miles south of the intersection of Routes 22 and 20. The book will be discussed again on Thursday, November 6, at 7 pm at the New Lebanon Library, located at 550 Route 20 in New Lebanon. Visitors and new members are always welcome to attend.
Author Amy Bloom is a nominee for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award for Away, which focuses on an immigrant Jewish seamstress from New York who travels across continents in search of her young daughter in Siberia.