Book Group To Discuss ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’

C.H. Booth Library will host a book discussion on Thursday, March 16, at 7:30 pm, concerning Audrey Niffenegger’s novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife.

This best-selling work features Henry, who is a time traveler. He drops in and out of various moments in his life — sometimes back to the past, sometimes forward to the future. Clare leads a chronologically normal life. The two of them intersect, in “real time,” when Clare is 20 and Henry is 28. She has known him, however — a much older-version, that is — since she was a little girl.

For years, she has known he was her future husband, so by the time Clare actually meets the real-time Henry (who is a little befuddled at this strange girl rushing up to him in the Chicago library where he works), Clare practically has their wedding already planned out.

The story follows the lovers across a timeline shaped like a Mobius strip, alternating between the viewpoints. They do their best to live normal lives, going after the American dream of steady jobs, witty friends. and children of their own. Ultimately, their relationship turns as sweet and tragic as an Emily Dickinson poem.

Multiple copies of the book are available at the library’s second floor circulation desk. Newcomers are invited.

On April 20 the group will be talking about The Haha by Dave King.

C.H. Booth Library, at 25 Main Street, can be contacted at 426-4533.