WilmU Book Club

June 2021  | The Midnight Library

Date/Time:
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
12:00pm ET

Location:
Online through Zoom

Please join the WilmU Book Club for an online discussion of Matt Haig's book, The Midnight Library. Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”

Students, Faculty, Alumni, and Staff are all welcome! 

Borrow an ebook or audiobook on Overdrive through your local library! Learn more.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe, there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

A preview of the book can be read here.