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EAST LIVERPOOL -- MUSE Group will resume on February 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of Ceramics. MUSE is a reading and discussion group that meets on the third Tuesday of the month and is free and open to all. Participants discuss the current book and other books that they are reading. February's book is Promise by Minrose Gwin. On Palm Sunday, 1936 a massive funnel cloud destroyed the cotton-mill town of Tupelo, Mississippi and killed over 200 people. But that number includes only the number of whites who died...the African American community was not counted. Promise recounts that fateful time and the people who endured it. Colleen McCoy is the discussion leader.
On March 16, the featured book is The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester. This family saga is a war story as well as a story of love and loss. It is told in multiple time frames between Paris, England and Australia and delves into WWII, death camps, secret operatives, the French resistance, and the women who flew for the ATA. Judy Comm will be the guest discussion leader
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is the book for April 20. The New York Times ranked it among the top five novels of 2020. It is the story of the identical Vignes twins. They grew up in a small, southern black community and ran away at age sixteen. From then on, nothing about their lives was identical.
The classic novel, Rebecca, by Daphne DuMaurier is the choice for May 18. The book begins with the words, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…" With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as the young bride of a husband she barely knew.
All meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. and light refreshments are served. Entry to the museum is by the side door on Fifth and Apple Alley. For additional information, email the staff at museumofceramics@gmail.com.