Next Chapter Society Book Club

Grab a ticket to the April 19th showing of the movie at Regal Hollywood at 3:10 p.m. (link here). If you want to sit next to an NCS member, we've got tickets in F4 and F5.
Then join us at Black Abbey post-movie (5:30pmish) to connect with others and chat about the movie, the book and whatever else you're reading!

Can't wait to watch the movie with everyone!

Join Next Chapter Society Book Club on Tuesday, April 22 at 6:30 p.m. as we meet to discuss "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan. Check out the Nashville Public Library's online catalog or reserve a physical copy for pickup at your local branch!

We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life—divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house—and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco’s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang—who thrived and who faltered—and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie’s catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou’s far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2011, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2010.

Where are we meeting: Tailgate Brewery HQ (West)
What's on the menu: Menu here
Alcohol: Beer menu here
Parking: Free paved and gravel street level parking in the front and side. Overflow parking down a hill.

Gather with some of Nashville's fellow book lovers and learn more about the Next Chapter Society, the Nashville Public Library Foundation's emerging leaders group. Even if you haven't read the book, you are still welcome to join us!

Join Next Chapter Society Book Club on Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m. as we meet to discuss "The Museum of Failures" by Thrity Umrigar. Check out the Nashville Public Library's online catalog or reserve a physical copy for pickup at your local branch!

When Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his cold and inscrutable mother with him and has kept his distance from her. Years later, he returns to Bombay, planning to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl and to see his elderly mother again before it is too late. She is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life.

Struck with guilt for not realizing just how ill she had become, Remy devotes himself to helping her recover and return home. But one day in her apartment he comes upon an old photograph that demands explanation. As shocking family secrets surface, Remy finds himself reevaluating his entire childhood and his relationship to his parents, just as he is on the cusp of becoming a parent himself. Can Remy learn to forgive others for their human frailties, or is he too wedded to his sorrow and anger over his parents’ long-ago decisions?

Where are we meeting: Monday Night Brewing
What's on the menu: This site has a "curated menu of delicious snacks"
Alcohol: Beer menu here. Tuesday is BOGO token beer night
Parking: Parking in the garage across from the brewery is free for the first hour, then $6/hr with a max of $30 for 24 hours. Street parking is free and usually available within 1-2 blocks.

Gather with some of Nashville's fellow book lovers and learn more about the Next Chapter Society, the Nashville Public Library Foundation's emerging leaders group. Even if you haven't read the book, you are still welcome to join us!