February Book Club (February 24)
Mon, Feb 24
|Palo Alto Elks Lodge - Members Bar
February Book: The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich Please note -- we will be meeting February 24th (the FOURTH Monday)
Time & Location
Feb 24, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Palo Alto Elks Lodge - Members Bar, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
About the event
Join us on Monday, January 16th for a discussion of Four Winds! We will meet in the members bar at 7:00 pm.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression.
Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance.
In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a…