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Join other readers in their 20s and 30s to discuss "Penance" by Eliza Clark.
Join us for a social book group for readers in their 20s and 30s to discuss a variety of genres. Meet up with other book enthusiasts at Emerson's Ale House, located at 113 S. Emerson St. in Mount Prospect. The Library will provide a round of appetizers for the group; other food and beverages are available for purchase.
Book summary: On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls. Nearly a decade after the horrifying murder, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves. The result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil. But how much of the story is true?
Compulsively readable, provocative, and disturbing, Penance is a cleverly nuanced, unflinching exploration of gender, class, and power that raises troubling questions about the media and our obsession with true crime while bringing to light the depraved side of human nature and our darkest proclivities.
We recommend you place a hold on the select title a month prior to the meeting for ample reading time. If you'd like to place a hold over the phone, please call the Fiction/AV/Teen desk at 847-590-4070.
113 S. Emerson St.
