July's Read: Transatlantic by Colum McCann

From the publisher's book description:

"Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators -- Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown -- set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean...

"Dublin, 1845 and '46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause...

"New York, 1998. Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, where it has fallen to him, the son of an Irish-American father and a Lebanese mother, to shepherd Northern Ireland's notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion.

These three iconic crossings are connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in the swells of history...The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller..."

Join us July 22 at Margy's house for the next in a series of rousing discussions.

McCann to Read at Hennepin County Library June 24 at 7

This event, at the Minneapolis Central branch of the Hennepin County Library, is free and open to the public.