The New Lebanon Book Group has selected People of the Book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks for its upcoming discussions Thursday, October 15, at 7 pm at the New Lebanon Library, 550 Route 20, and Sunday, November 1, at 11 am at the Hitchcock House B & B on Route 22.
People of the Book, based on a true story, features an Australian rare book expert who is asked to analyze and conserve the famed Sarajevo Haggadah which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Geraldine Brooks, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel March, was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, stationed in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East.