Short Stack | New Book Group

Ask at the Circulation desk for a copy of the book we are holding for Short Stack. Books will be available 3 weeks before the group meets. 

Join Short Stack, a book club for readers who want big ideas in bite-sized books under 200 pages. Our first pick, A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, is perfect “diet sci-fi”—gentle, hopeful, and low on tech jargon. In a solarpunk world where robots walked away centuries ago, a wandering tea monk named Dex meets a curious robot, Mosscap, in the wilderness. Together, they embark on a quiet journey to explore one profound question: What do people need?

Book group leader Gabrielle Esposito holds a degree in Creative Writing from SUNY Geneseo. Her short stories have appeared in multiple publications. Notably, her story “The Way Home” was a prize winner in the 2023 Doro Boehme Fiction Editors’ Prize and was nominated for the 2024 Best American Short Stories anthology.

In addition to her writing, Gabrielle is a Library Director based in the Hudson Valley region of New York. She dedicates her free time to teaching writing workshops at local libraries and editing manuscripts for talented authors.

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