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At last it's autumn. Time for sweaters, hot tea, good books, and good book discussions with friends. 

Join the Campus Community Book Club as we read All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Our book discussion will be held online via Zoom on Wednesday, November 11 from Noon to 1 p.m. To receive the link to join the meeting please register below or email mariannesciucco@sunyorange.edu. This is a Wellness Center event.

Book Description: 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, and more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Pages: 544

Genres: Military Historical Fiction, War Fiction, American Literature

This book is available through the Ramapo Catskill Library System in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook (order early!) and for sale at most online booksellers.