Page Turners Book Selection for May 2024

The Page Turners, a book club co-sponsored by Princeton Public Library and the Friends of the Library, meets on the second Thursday of every month in The Matson Meeting Room, 6:00–7:30 p.m.

On May 9, the group will discuss The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley.

Eighty-four-year-old Louise is pestered by her children to hire a live-in caregiver after breaking her hip in a fall. Twenty-one-year-old Tanner needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. With no credit or money to speak of, her options are limited, so when an opportunity to work as Louise’s caregiver falls into her lap, she takes it. The two start off their living arrangement happily ignoring each other until Tanner starts to notice things—weird things. Like, why does Louise keep her garden shed locked up tighter than a prison? Why is the local news fixated on the suspect of one of the biggest jewelry heists in American history who looks eerily like Louise? And why does Louise suddenly appear in her room, with a packed bag at 1 a.m. insisting that they leave town immediately? Thus begins the story of a not-to-be-underestimated elderly woman and an aimless young woman who—if they can outrun the mistakes of their past—might just have the greatest adventure of their lives.

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