<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp63dd45e7yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Our book for July is </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i>Stone Yard Devotional: A Novel</i> by Charlotte Wood. </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">The discussion will take place on Saturday, July 18 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><div style="text-align: center;" dir="" data-setdir="true"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:9b096663-2934-799d-36d2-7a6b0b3e585d@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px; max-width: 400px; width: 50%;" data-id="<9b096663-2934-799d-36d2-7a6b0b3e585d@yahoo.com>"></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">From Amazon:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; font-family: new times, serif;"><div dir="ltr" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.</div><div><br></div><div>But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.</div><div><br></div><div>Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.</div><div><br></div><div>“<i>Stone Yard Devotional</i> is about one woman’s inward journey to make sense of the world and her life when conflicts and chaos are abundant in both realms…A fierce and philosophical interrogation of history, memory, nature, and human existence.” – Booker Prize remarks</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Hope to see you on the 18th,</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><div dir="ltr">Kevin (& Paula)</div></span></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>