Evening Book Group (January meeting)

Monday, January 4, 2027 · 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

McCarthy Meeting Room — 25 Boston Rd., Chelmsford, MA

This is a hybrid book group, where we meet in person as well as on zoom. Please register in person if you'd like to join us in the conference room, or online via zoom. This month we will be discussing, Happiness Falls by Angie Kim "When Mia's father doesn't come home from a walk in the local nature reserve, she doesn't think much of it. He must've turned off his phone. Or his battery died. Or he probably stopped for an errand--but doing what exactly? Soon more questions arise and it becomes clear to Mia and her family that he is missing. Or is he?"-- "We didn't call the police right away." Those are the first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean-American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia's brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this…

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