book cover for the green road by anne enright

International Book Group – The Green Road by Anne Enright

The International Book Group at West Falmouth Library is a volunteer-led group that meets on the first Wednesday of each month 3:45-5 p.m. Selections have either foreign settings or foreign authors, usually both. New members are always welcome! Annual registration is requested to receive important communications about schedule or location changes; register below. Meetings are both in-person and on Zoom.

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From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness―a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.

“A rich, capacious story, buoyed by tender humor…. The Green Road…offers a survey of Enright’s magnificent dexterity…. There’s nothing she can’t do with perspective, tone and time.” – Ron Charles, Washington Post

“The story of an Irish family, [The Green Road] is the kind of book that refuses quick characterization: it is sprawling and intimate, anguished and hopeful, elliptical and intensely observed.” – Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker

The discussion schedule is as follows:

9/3/2025 Out of Darkness, Shining Light Petina Gappah Africa
10/1/2025 Miss Benson’s Beetle Rachel Joyce New Caledonia
11/5/2025 The Palace of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni India
12/3/2025 The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun Morocco
1/7/2026 The Green Road Anne Enright Ireland
2/4/2026 Midaq Alley Najīb Maḥfūẓ Cairo
3/4/2026 Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton New Zealand
4/1/2026 Infinite Country Patricia Engel Colombia
5/6/2026 The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land In Between Hisham Matar Cairo
6/3/2026 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor Mexico

 

Date

Jan 07 2026

Time

3:45 pm

Location

West Falmouth Library
575 West Falmouth Highway, Falmouth, MA 02540

Organizer

Becky Kanaley
Phone
508-548-4709
Email
becky@westfalmouthlibrary.org