Top Shelf Reads - Book Discussion

Library events are always free to the public and you do not need a library card to attend! 

This event is only being offered virtually on Zoom. Registration is required to receive the Zoom meeting link. 

This month we will be discussing Haven by Emma Donoghue. Copies of the book are available for check out at the Information Desk at both FCL locations.

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks—young Trian and old Cormac—he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?

Three men vow to leave the world behind them. They set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael. Haven has Emma Donoghue’s trademark world-building and psychological intensity—but this story is like nothing she has ever written before.