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Hometown Book Club

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Meets at Seredipity Books--108 E. Middle St.

Join CDL and Michelle Tuplin as we meet at Serendipity Books to discuss Tin Camp Road by Ellen Airgood. This title is the 1st for the Dexter-Chelsea Community Reads.

Set against the wide-open beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Tin Camp Road is a wise, big-hearted novel from Ellen Airgood in which a young single mother and her ten-year-old daughter stand up to the trials of rural poverty and find the community they need in order to survive.
Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter Skye have always been each other’s everything. The pair live on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children, and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. Though they live frugally, eking out a living with Laurel’s patchwork of jobs, their deep love for each other feels like it can warm them even on the coldest of nights. What more do they need?One otherwise normal afternoon, their landlord decides to evict them in favor of a more profitable summer rental, and, without any warning, they are pushed farther to the margins. Suddenly it feels like the independence that has defined them is a liability. And when a dangerous incident threatens to separate them, Laurel and Skye must forever choose–will they leave the place they love and the hardscrabble life they’ve built to move closer to civilization, or risk everything to embrace the emptiness and wildness that has defined them?What follows is an uplifting, profoundly moving story about a mother and daughter fighting for each other, against all odds, as they learn to build community and foster the resilience that will keep them alive.
Praise for Tin Camp Road and Ellen Airgood:
“An affecting portrait of the region and its residents, filled with love and pride.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Moving and brave.” —People Magazine

“Airgood’s characters feel true and rich, outwardly simple—the hardworking, salt-of-the-earth types found in every community—but internally complex as they strive for happiness, connection, fulfillment, and comfort in each other, their surroundings, and themselves. A leisurely read with a strong sense of place that is ideal for pairing with the stony beaches of Lake Superior or the sharp crackle of a campfire, or for experiencing the shift in atmosphere reading fiction provides.” —BOOKLIST