Lark & Owl Book Club Discussion: Owls

205 West 6th Street,Georgetown TX 78626

28 September, 2022

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Join us for a discussion about an unforgettable debut novel from award-winning writer Nell Stevens: a lively, daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn’t know she exists, BRIEFLY A DELICIOUS LIFE. Space is limited and registration is required to attend. If space fills up, we can offer a Second Chance Book Club the following week. About the book: "A luscious, multi-sensory bewitchment of a book — Stevens’ writing rings with wit and surprise." —Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—the impossible love of a teenage ghost for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involves an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training). Charming, original, and emotionally moving, this is a surprisingly touching story about romantic fixation and a powerful meditation on creativity.