Book Clubber Pass

 Hello Book Lovers,

Take this opportunity to get the most out of reading! Join a vibrant Book Club that will challenge you to read unique books, and encourage you to consider alternative perspectives.

This Book Clubber Pass will grant you access to weekly Sunday evening (5:30pm AST) Book Club on Zoom.

*THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE A COPY OF THE BOOK*

I encourage you to find a copy of North by Brad Kessler at your local library, or your favourite second-hand book store. Of course, you can find this publication new from a number of large and small booksellers.

There are limited spaces available 🥰

Yours,

Emma

As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in advance of the unseasonal snowstorm. When the storm lands a young Somali refugee, Sahro Abdi Muse, at the monastery, Christopher is pulled back into the world as his life intersects with Sahro’s and that of an Afghan war veteran in surprising and revealing ways.

North traces the epic journey of Sahro from her home in Somalia to South America, along the migrant route through Central America and Mexico, to New York City, and finally, her dangerous attempt to continue north to safety in Canada. It also compellingly traces the inner journeys of Brother Christopher, questioning his future in a world where the monastery way of life is waning, and of veteran Teddy Fletcher, seeking a way to make peace with his past.

Written in Brad Kessler’s sharp, beautiful, and observant prose, and grounded in the author’s own corner of Vermont, where there is a Carthusian monastery, a vibrant community of Somali asylum seekers, and a hole left after a disproportionate number of Vermont soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, North gives voice to these invisible communities, delivering a story of human connection in a time of displacement.