Central Book Club

Voting is open for our book selections in 2027! Please submit your choices by November 6 by going to this link. Central Book Club meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm. For a list of all our books for the year, visit this page. This month we are reading The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. The book is available to check out from the library here. Throughout her life Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings around half past ten Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has. A mother, grandmother, wife, divorcée, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness. View the discussion questions ahead of time here.