What could be better than working on your favorite knitting or crocheting project while someone reads out loud to you?
Join our yarn circle/adult story time for your dose of productive relaxation! On Wednesday, January 8, we will be reading/listening to our WestportREADS 2025 choice, In the Distance by Hernan Diaz, before the author comes to speak on February 13.
In the Distance is the story of a young Swedish immigrant who, after becoming separated from his brother during their journey to America, embarks on a perilous trek across the 19th-century American landscape in search of him, facing numerous challenges and becoming an unwitting legend along the way.
The New York Times called this book: "Strange and transporting. … A weirdness to which a reader willingly submits, because of the vigorous beauty of [Diaz's] words. … In the Distance [is] an uncanny achievement: an original Western. … An affecting oddness is the great virtue of In the Distance, along with its wrenching evocations of its main character’s loneliness and grief. And its ability to create lustrous mindscapes from wide-open spaces, from voids that are never empty."
Bring your yarn projects to the Library on Wednesday afternoons from 1:30 to 3 pm in the Sheffer Gallery. We'll read aloud while you work on your project. Or you can just listen — no working necessary! No registration is required, and no yarn instruction provided.
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