October Nonfiction Book Discussion

We hope you will join us Tuesday, October 2, at 7:00 p.m. in Meeting Room B at Main Library in downtown Charleston for a discussion of Rory Stewart's The Places In Between. Stewart's book is his account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002, which was part of a longer walk through four other Asian countries, just months after the fall of the Taliban and the invasion by U.S. forces. He provides poetic snapshots of the people and places he encounters on his journey, interspersed with anecdotes from Afghanistan's ancient and recent history. He also teases the reader with his purpose--the first line of his book reads, "I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan"--which provides a perfect opening to a discussion of this book The New York Times Book Review calls "A striding, glorious book . . . A flat-out masterpiece."