ONLINE ONLY: The Library Book Club at East Bend | |
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Event Type: Adult Program Age Group(s): Adult Date: 8/17/2021 Start Time: 12:00 PM End Time: 1:00 PM Description: Discuss "Blacktop Wasteland" by S.A. Cosby online using Zoom.
Library: East Bend Public LibraryJoin us online by copy and pasting the following link: https://zoom.us/j/92441113342 About the Book: A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series of financial calamities, Bug feels he has no choice but to take one final job as the getaway driver for a daring diamond heist that could solve all his money troubles and allow him to go straight once and for all. Like "Ocean's Eleven" meets "Drive" (but with a mostly black cast of characters), Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of sons living up (or down) to their fathers; of a heist gone sideways; of a man ground down by economic desperation; of fast cars and daring chases and identity and love. *zm* Contact: Roxanne M. Renteria Contact Number: 541-312-1091 Presenter: Roxanne M. Renteria, Community Librarian Link: Join on Zoom |