TBO Book Club: A Fall of Marigolds
Event info
TBO Book Club presents: “A Fall Of Marigolds” by Susan Meissner on ZOOM. Our discussion leader will be Steve Goren.
A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who
learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away…
September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face
returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle
Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors
hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries…and
finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the
assumptions she has made. What she learns could devastate her, or free her.
September 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has
convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty
fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a
national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in
the collapse of the World Trade Towers…the same day a stranger reached out and
saved her. But a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf may open Taryn’s eyes
to the larger forces at work in her life.
