Note: Due to a staff shortage, we are able to facilitate book group online only. 

The Daytime Book Group is a great opportunity to get together (virtually and/or in person in the Meeting Room) and talk about a book the group has read. Make new friends and relax for a while! If meeting is held indoors, participants will be required to wear a mask.

This month we will discuss Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts. 

This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank's passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book--because she's the only one left who knows its secrets. But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of "Over the Rainbow," Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story: from her youth as a suffragette's daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Judy reminds Maud of a young girl she cared for and tried to help in South Dakota, a dreamer who never got her happy ending. Now, with the young actress under pressure from the studio as well as her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect her--the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy.

If you are interested, please contact Amy at interlibraryloan@barringtonlibrary.com to join. If you would like a copy of the book, please include your full name and phone number in the email so we can get you a copy via interlibrary loan one month prior to the meeting.