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Katie's Choice Book Club: "Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult

Every month, Katie's Cup Book Club chooses moving and poignant stories to highlight the human condition. We meet on the second Thursday of the month at 10 AM and the club is open to the public. Copies of next month's book are available in the coffee bar or feel free to bring your own.

This month’s book selection: "Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult:

"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts.

Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest. The first is Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons—only to later doubt her gifts. The second is Virgil Stanhope, a jaded private detective who originally investigated Alice’s case along with the strange, possibly linked death of one of her colleagues. As the three work together to uncover what happened to Alice, they realize that in asking hard questions, they’ll have to face even harder answers."