Books on Tap: “Love”

Books on Tap: “Love”

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Books on Tap: “Love”

ABOUT THE EVENT

Books on Tap, Phoenixville Public Library’s book discussion group for twenty- and thirty-something adults, will meet next on Tuesday, June 27, 7:00 PM at Molly Maguire’s Irish Restaurant & Pub, 197 Bridge Street, Phoenixville. The group will discuss Roddy Doyle’s novel, Love.

Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke. Ha Ha Ha Davy and Joe were drinking pals back in their Dublin youth. Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore–maybe one or two when Davy comes over from England to check on his elderly father. But tonight Davy’s father is dying in the hospice, and Joe has a secret that will lead the two on a bender back to the haunts of their youth. Joe had left his wife and family a year earlier for another woman, Jessica. Davy knows her too, or should–she was the girl of their dreams four decades earlier, the girl with the cello in George’s pub. As Joe’s story unfolds across Dublin–pint after pint, pub after pub–so too do the memories of what eventually drove Davy from Ireland: the upheaval that Faye, his feisty, profane wife, would bring into his life; his father’s somber disapproval; the pained spaces left behind when a parent dies. As much a hymn to the Dublin of old as a delightfully comic yet moving portrait of what it means to try to put into words the many forms that love can take, Love marks a triumphant new turn for Roddy Doyle.

Copies of the book may be reserved at https://chesp.na.iiivega.com. This event is free and open to the public. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. For more information, email Faith Donaher at fdonaher@gmail.com.