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Hybrid Adult Book Club at Michigan Road

Online Option

Read the book and attend in person at the Michigan Road Branch or attend online from your home computer! We chose the book "World War Z" by Max Brooks to discuss in August. Registration is Required.

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

The book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the reader's part. Still, the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, "By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?"

Registration is required. We need your email to send you the meeting link in order to attend. 

If you would like to receive a copy of our book club materials but have not attended a meeting, visit the Michigan Road Branch or check out a copy from our collection! 

World War Z by Max Brooks is available as a print book, an e-book, a downloadable audiobook, and as an audiobook CD in the Library's Collection. 

Happy Reading!

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