RIDGEFIELD — The Ridgefield Library AM Book Group will discuss Seamus Deane’s first novel, Reading in the Dark, on Wednesday, February 16. The program will begin at 10 am in the library’s Dayton Program Room.

Reading in the Dark is set in the troubled town of Derry in postwar Ireland. It is the mesmerizing account of a boy determined to unearth the bitterly guarded truth of his family’s painful past.

The adolescent narrator, who remains nameless to the reader, finds himself uncontrollably compelled to resolve generations of family feuding, political treachery and guilty secrets.

A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award, the author’s prose is clearly that of a poet’s, and the reader is treated to a recounting as tender as it is witty and tormented.

The group is free and open to the public, and new participants are always welcome. Copies of the book may be purchased at Books on the Common in Ridgefield at a 15 percent discount.

For more information, call Susan Verrilli, Ridgefield Library’s adult program coordinator, at 203/438-2282. The library is at 472 Main Street (Route 35).