Online
Tuesday Morning Literary Discussion Group
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Join us for an online book group discussion of this month’s title, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard.
Read at your own pace and then join us at 10:00 on Tuesday, November 9 for a lively digital discussion. A link will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your library card one day prior to the event.
For more information call Sara McBride at 803-929-3400.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.