Love to talk about books? Join us for Books Sandwiched In, now at the Larry R. Jackson Branch Library.  The group meets at Jackson Branch Library Meeting Room on the first Tuesday of each month at 12:15 p.m.  Registration for this in-person event is required and seating is limited to 20 people to allow space for social distancing. 

Our September title is Difficult Women by Roxane Gay.

Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist. Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.

Print copies WILL NOT be available for sale for the book discussion. Difficult Women is available for check out in print and in digital format through the following avenues: 

(H)  Ebooks and/or eaudiobooks are available for digital checkout through our Hoopla service: https://www.lakelandgov.net/departments/library/using-the-library/resources/ebooks-more/ebooks/. A library card and PIN is needed to access Hoopla for free.

(O)  Some titles are also available for digital checkout through our OverDrive service and its Libby app: https://www.lakelandgov.net/departments/library/using-the-library/resources/ebooks-more/ebooks/.  A library card and PIN is needed to access OverDrive/Libby for free.

(P)  Some titles are also available in print for checkout. You can reserve a copy through our Polk County Library Cooperative (PCLC) online catalog: https://pclc.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/lakeland. A library card and PIN is needed to reserve PCLC materials for free.

For more information, call Brenda J. Patterson at 863-834-4276 or send e-mail to Brenda.Patterson@lakelandgov.net.