Daytime Book Club: My Friends
Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Venue: East Regional Library – East Meeting Room, Durham
Price: Free
Category: Community
<p>Come join the Daytime Book Club as we discuss this month's book! New members are always welcome (we love meeting new people!). Registration is appreciated but not required.</p> <p>This month we will discuss <a href="https://durhamcounty.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S217C370425"><i>My Friends </i>by Fredrik Backman</a>. The description for the book is below:<br /> "Most people don't even notice them: three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.</p> <p>Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and telling stories out on a pier. There's Joar, who never backs down from a fight; quiet and bookish Ted who is mourning his father; Ali, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for long; and finally, there's the artist, a boy who hoards sleeping pills and shuns attention, but who possesses an extraordinary gift that might be his ticket to a better life. These four lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream.</p> <p>Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be put into eighteen-year-old Louisa's care.
