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We\u2019ll read the book together from October through February, meeting six times for a lunchtime discussion of the novel. The final meeting of the book group will be the day before Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s visit, ensuring that you\u2019re all caught up before the big event!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll meetings of the book club will be held in Ross-Blakley Hall 196 from 11:30 a.m. to\u0026nbsp;12:30 p.m., on the specified Wednesdays below:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMeeting 1 (pages 1-225): Oct. 7\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMeeting 2 (pages 226-419): Nov. 4\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMeeting 3 (pages 420-610): Dec. 2\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMeeting 4 (pages 611-819): Jan. 20\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMeeting 5 (pages 820-1,027): Feb. 3\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMeeting 6 (pages 1,028-1,239): Feb. 24\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlease feel free to bring your lunch and eat while we discuss!\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the book:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making \u2014 a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaur\u2019s life has been shaped by loss: an apparently ordinary tragedy. 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