Next event:
January 13, 2025
5:30pm –
7:00pm
Welcome to Book Love Book Club! Join us for our in-person gathering at Book Love for a fun and engaging discussion about our latest book pick. Whether you're a bookworm or just looking to dive into a new read, our club is the perfect place to share your thoughts, insights, and love for books with like-minded individuals. Come prepared to chat, laugh, and maybe even debate a little – all in the name of our shared passion for reading. We can't wait to see you there!
January Pick: The Undercurrent by Sarah Sawyer
This month we are reading The Undercurrent by Sarah Sawyer.
“A mystery of remarkable scope, bristling with intelligence, beauty, and humanity. It is, quite simply: stunning.” —Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
"A stunning, achingly beautiful and gripping mystery. Full of page-turning suspense, intrigue, and secrets…I loved it.” —Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark
An overwhelmed new mother becomes obsessed with the unsolved disappearance of a young girl from her small Texas hometown—and unearths her own family’s dark secret.
It’s 2011 and Deecie Jeffries’s missing person’s case in Austin, Texas, is still cold. New mom Bee, struggling with postpartum depression, is living in Portland, Maine, having left Austin–and those memories–far behind. Until Leo, her childhood crush and her estranged twin Gus’s best friend, suddenly resurfaces, drawing Bee back into their shared past.
Bee’s predictable life is upended, pushing her to return to her childhood home and piece together a neighborhood’s shattered history. Bee becomes consumed with a need to uncover the truth about Deecie’s disappearance and what happened to the families who lived across the field from one another—Gus, Leo, and their mothers: Mary, a homemaker, whose only escape is the local community theater, and Diana, a serious academic dedicated to her studies.
Told in multiple perspectives with two different timelines, The Undercurrent is a gripping portrait of motherhood, obsession, broken family bonds, and buried secrets.
