The Merrimack Public Library Book Group is open to all! Read the it or listen to the audiobook and come join others to discuss the book. We meet in the Lowell Room on the third Wednesday of the month from Sept-June.
Copies of the books are provided, and no registration necessary.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. "Depicting the men of Alpha Company—Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three—the stories inThe Things They Carried opened our eyes to the nature of war in a way we will never forget. It is taught everywhere, from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing, and in the decades since its publication it has never failed to challenge our perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, and courage, longing, and fear." - Houghton, the publisher