April’s meeting will be at McGillicuddy’s (33 Brookline Blvd., Havertown) they have a side room to use. Our book selection is Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis.
Stop by the Reference Desk to pick up a copy of the book and then join us at McGillicuddy’s!
About Old School Indian:
Forty-three-year-old Abe Jacobs has been told by his doctors that he’s dying—and fast. Having exhausted his doctors’ regimens, he begins to contemplate the one path he thought he’d never take: a healing at the hands of his great uncle Budge Billings. His uncle still lives on the Ahkwesáhsne reservation where Abe was raised, so more than two decades after leaving, Abe reluctantly returns home.
Budge, a wry, unceremonious, recovered alcoholic, is not the least bit sentimental about his gift. Which is good, because Abe’s last-ditch attempt to be healed is just that—a fragile hope, one of which he is thoroughly skeptical. But no healing is possible without hope or knowing oneself. To find both faith and himself again, Abe must confront how leaving the reservation at eighteen has affected him, and the loves and fears that have kept him far from home ever since.
