Athens: Book Club: “Dear Edward” by Ann Napolitano

Join us in a discussion of “Dear Edward” by Ann Napolitano for our July book club.

What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live? One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler’s family and 183 other passengers board a flight to L.A. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor. Edward’s story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a part of himself has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes a discovery—one that will lead him to the answers of some of life’s most profound questions: When you’ve lost everything, how do you find the strength to put one foot in front of the other? How do you learn to feel safe again? How do you find meaning in your life?

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