The Blue Elephant Book Group meets at the store on the second Wednesday of every month. Come for this month's discussion at 7 p.m. on November 9, 2011. Anyone is welcome to join us!

This month, the Book Group will read The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perotta. All store purchases of this book are 10% off until the meeting!

Tom Perotta

The Abstinence Teacher

Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it's got good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. Parents in the town are involved in their children's lives, and often in other children's lives, too—coaching sports, driving carpool, focusing on enriching experiences. Ruth Ramsey is the high school human sexuality teacher whose openness is not appreciated by all her students—or their parents. Her daughter’s soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker whose response to hitting rock bottom was to reach out and be saved. Tim's introduction of Christianity on the playing field horrifies Ruth, while his evangelical church sees a useful target in the loose-lipped sex ed teacher. But when these two adversaries in a small-town culture war actually talk to each other, a surprising friendship begins to develop.

UPCOMING
December 2011: The Weekend by Peter Cameron