The Contemporary Book Group reads a variety of contemporary fiction and nonfiction, and typically meets on the second Wednesday of the month from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Historical Room for a lively book discussion. Copies of each month's selection are available to borrow at the Check Out Desk on the day of the previous book club. New members are always welcome! 

February's selection is Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. As teenagers, wealthy Madison and scholarship student Lillian became unlikely friends at a prestigious boarding school, until Lillian was expelled for something Madison did. Now that they're in their late 20s, Madison is married to a senator, and she invites Lillian--who spends her days working at a grocery store and smoking pot in her mother's attic--to their estate to care for her new stepchildren…who are prone to literally bursting into flames when upset. The novel is a love letter to the weirdness and difficulties of children and of parenting, with or without spontaneous human combustion.