The Charlotte “Charlie” Alexander
Book Discussion Group

• Wednesday mornings @ 9:15 – 11:00am
• Friends Room at the Newport Beach Central Library
• Doors open at 9:00 am; no reserved seating
• Sessions are free; reservations not required
• Authors are not present unless noted
• If you have not finished or read the book, come anyway!
• Information: nbplfoundation.org

November 14, 2018
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

In the dawning light of a late‐summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in this portrait of a city and its people.