Event Name:
Friday Book Club
Description
The Friday Book Group will meet at 2:00 p.m. Fri. June 21st on the 2nd
floor of the library to discuss Rachel Kadish’s “The Weight of Ink.” The library does not carry multiple copies.
Event Date:
06-21-19
Event Time:
2:00 pm
Location:
Decorah Public Library
202 Winnebago Street
Decorah, IA 52101
Contact Person:
Details:
Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, “The Weight of Ink” is the
interwoven tale of two women: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam
who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi; and Helen Watt, an ailing
historian with a love of Jewis history. Helen is summoned by a former student
to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his
home during a renovation. Enlisting the help of an American graduate student,
Helen embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents’
scribe, the elusive “Aleph.”
For more information, contact Carmen
Buss (Friday Book Group) or Kristin Torresdal (Happy Hour and History Book
Groups) at 563-382-3717. Carmen can also be reached at cbuss@decorah.lib.ia.us