The Whiting Library Book Club is holding our monthly book discussion at the library in the community room on the second Wednesday of the month at 6pm. The book for August is The Old Maid by Edith Wharton. Copies are available at the library for check out. All are welcome to attend whether this is your first book club ever or you were born at a book club. We love to talk books!
If you have any questions or would like to get on the email list for the Book Club, please contact the library. You can email whitinglibrary1@gmail.com or call 875-2277.
Here’s more info about The Old Maid:
Originally serialized in The Red Book Magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her—the beautiful, upstanding Delia—and her true mother, her plain, unmarried “aunt” Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life. The three women live quietly together until Tina’s wedding day, when Delia’s and Charlotte’s hidden jealousies rush to the surface. Says Roxana Robinson in her Introduction, “Wharton weaves her golden, fine-meshed net about her characters with inexorable precision.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the original magazine publication.