Event List

Share & Bookmark, Press Enter to show all options, press Tab go to next option
Print

The Charlotte "Charlie" Alexander Book Discussion Group

Emma & Otto & Russell & James by Emma Hooper

  • Date: 02/14/2018 9:15 am - 11:00 am  
  • Location: Newport Beach Central Library, Friends Meeting Room
    1000 Avocado Avenue
    Newport Beach, California 92660
  • Introduction: The group is free and reservations are not required. Authors are not present unless noted.
    Everyone is welcome.

Etta and Otto Cover

Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper

 Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta walks further toward the crashing waves the lines among memory, illusion, and reality blur.

Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. “I will try to remember to come back,” Etta writes to her husband. Otto has seen the ocean, having crossed the Atlantic years ago to fight in a far-away war. He understands. But with Etta gone, the memories come crowding in and Otto struggles to keep them at bay. Meanwhile, their neighbor Russell has spent his whole life trying to keep up with Otto and loving Etta from afar. Russell insists on finding Etta, wherever she’s gone. Leaving his own farm will be the first act of defiance in his life.

Presented by the Newport Beach Public Library Foundation

http://www.nbplfoundation.org/

Return to full list >>