Our pick for the next book group is below. We will meet in the Williams Room on Dec 15. Everyone is welcome.  You do not need to be a church member. Questions contact Peter Hornbeck.

 Everything the Light Touches (2022) by Janice Pariat, mingles fact with fiction, ecology with history. The novel moves in a non-linear fashion across centuries, focusing on four travelers, including Linnaeus and Goethe, whose routes are interconnected like tangled roots. A poignant read that brings together, with startling and playful novelty, people and places that seem, at first, removed from each time and place. Yet as it artfully reveals, all is resonance; all is connection. Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker.