Name:
Afternoon Book Discussion at the Powell Library
Date:
January 13, 2026
Time:
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM MST
Website:
https://parkcountylibrary.org/
Event Description:
January's Afternoon Book Discussion book will be available for pick up after December 9th!!
The discussion group will be meeting at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, January 13th in the Homesteader Hall Meeting Room at the Park County Fairgrounds to discuss 'Virgil Wander' by Leif Enger
More about this fiction book:
Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals--from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine, the reserved, enchanting wife of the vanished man; to Tom, a journalist and Virgil's oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. With intelligent humor and captivating whimsy, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller.
To join the Afternoon Book Discussion Group, please ask for a copy at the circulation desk after July 1st or check it out on Libby!
The Park County Public Library, Powell is located in Homesteader Hall at the Park County Fairgrounds (655 E. 5th St.)
The discussion group will be meeting at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, January 13th in the Homesteader Hall Meeting Room at the Park County Fairgrounds to discuss 'Virgil Wander' by Leif Enger
More about this fiction book:
Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals--from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine, the reserved, enchanting wife of the vanished man; to Tom, a journalist and Virgil's oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. With intelligent humor and captivating whimsy, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller.
To join the Afternoon Book Discussion Group, please ask for a copy at the circulation desk after July 1st or check it out on Libby!
The Park County Public Library, Powell is located in Homesteader Hall at the Park County Fairgrounds (655 E. 5th St.)
