May Library Bookclub

Brainerd Library Book Club

Join us for the
Brainerd Library Book Club! Open to all who love to read and talk. This Book Club will
meet monthly. Each month a different member will have the opportunity to select
the book to be read and discussed.

Thursday May, 22 at 6:30
pm

May Book
Selection

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbury and Alison
Anderson

Renee is the concierge of a grand
Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the
years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable
but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of
what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee:
passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than
her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down
in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manuela, Renee lives
resigned to her lonely lot with only her cat for company. Meanwhile, several
floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the pampered and
vacuous future laid out for her, and decides to end her life on her thirteenth
birthday. But unknown to them both, the sudden death of one of their privileged
neighbors will dramatically alter their lives forever.