
Book Club - January
Fri, Jan 31
|Maroa Public Library
January- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away, Bill Bryson. A monthly mix of fiction and non fiction selected by library staff. Join us the last Friday of each month at 11 AM for discussion and snacks.


Time & Location
Jan 31, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Maroa Public Library, 305 Garfield St, Maroa, IL 61756, USA
About the Event
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to…