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SUMMARY:The Library Lunchtime Book Club | December | JOHN OF JOHN
LOCATION:Oxford Exchange\, 420 W Kennedy Blvd\, Tampa\, FL 33606\, USA
DESCRIPTION:Afternoon book club led by the Oxford Exchange Bookstore Team\,
  held in-person at The Library in St. Pete. Join us for an afternoon book 
 club led by the Oxford Exchange Bookstore Team! All readers are welcome! H
 eld in person at The Library in St. Pete on the last Wednesday of every mo
 nth. This book club focuses on popular\, yet compelling book club novels t
 hat spark connection and conversation. Books are available in-person or on
 line at the Oxford Exchange Bookstore . LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 
 • AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “
 This excavation of family\, violence and shame is woven through with beaut
 iful imagistic detail\, and—unexpectedly—shades of hope. We loved the 
 rich\, textural detail of the story.”—The Booker Prize 2026 judges “
 Douglas Stuart brilliantly weaved a layered\, compelling and yet so intima
 te a story of identity\, what it means to belong\, and the courage to clai
 m your own truth.”—Oprah Winfrey “One of 2026's literary triumphs.
 ”— Boston Globe From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bests
 elling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid\, moving novel
  following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home\, a portrait
  of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires Out of money and with 
 little to show for his art school education\, John-Calum Macleod takes the
  ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that 
 little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and t
 he two pillars of his childhood: his father John\, a sheep farmer\, tweed 
 weaver\, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church\, and his mater
 nal grandmother Ella\, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth h
 elped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother. Cal privately wonder
 s if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home\, while
  John is dismayed by his son’s long hair\, strange clothes\, and seeming
  unwillingness to be Saved. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft
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