Monday Night Book Club In-Person
At the Monday Night Book Club we discuss a wide range of classic and contemporary literature. This month, we will discuss Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.
A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last.
But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place: he has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker, or so he tells Birnam’s founder, Mira, when he catches her on the property. He’s intrigued by Mira, and by Birnam Wood; although they’re poles apart politically, it seems Lemoine and the group might have enemies in common. But can Birnam trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust one another?
Monday Night Book Club meets on the third Monday of every month at 7:00 pm.
- Date:
- Monday, April 20, 2026 Show more dates
- Time:
- 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Simpson - Tutor Rooms 1 & 2
- Audience:
- Ages 19 and up / Adults
- Categories:
- Book Clubs
Questions? Email Joelene or call 766-0171.