Morning Coffee Book Club

Read on the Edge with the Morning Coffee Book Club. Join us for a discussion of Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami at 10:00 a.m. in the Cornelia White Community Room at the Welwood Murray Memorial Library.

The Morning Coffee Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. at the Welwood Murray Memorial Library and is open to everyone. Members of the club read the selected book for the month, then join in lively discussions. Please click here to see a list of future selections for the Morning Coffee Book Club.

Refreshments are generously provided by Aspen Mills Bakery. Thank you, Aspen Mills!

January 16, 2019

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 

Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.

Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.

A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, Norwegian Wood blends the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.

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