Book Club @ 6:00

Book Club to Movie @ 6:00 pm

Join us for a lively discussion about, If I Stay by Gayle Foreman, Thursday, July 10th @ 6:00 pm.

Our book club takes a meal together at 6:00 and begins a book discussion after dinner. Please bring a dish to share.

This is a special book club where we will eat watch a movie and then discuss the book and movie.

Summary of If I Stay:

Seventeen-year-old Mia Hall lives in a small town in Oregon with her Mom (Kat), Dad (Denny), and eight-year-old brother, Teddy. On one snowy morning, school is cancelled, leaving Mia and Teddy, as well as their father, an English teacher, with the day off. Mia’s Mom decides to take the day off from her job at a travel agency in order to spend the day with the rest of her family. They eat breakfast, and Mia’s Mom jokes that she’s surprised Mia isn’t spending the day practicing the cello. Mia is a talented cellist, and has recently auditioned for The Juilliard School in New York City, where she hopes to study the following year, after she graduates from high school. Everyone piles into the family car, and they start to drive. They plan to visit Willow and Henry, family friends who have a baby daughter, and to have dinner with Dad’s parents, Gran and Gramps, who live nearby.

Mia falls asleep while her parents drive, and suddenly wakes up to find the car “eviscerated.” The car has been totaled by a pickup truck, due to the snow on the roads, which is unusual for their part of Oregon. Mia finds her mother and father dead from the accident, and sees her own body, unconscious, still in the vehicle. She realizes she is having a kind of out-of-body experience: she cannot feel any pain, and appears to be able to move around as she pleases, though no one can see her. An ambulance soon arrives. Mia’s parents are declared dead on arrival, and she is taken to a nearby hospital, where she is then airlifted to a hospital in Portland.