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SUMMARY:All Over the Page - Silver Alert
UID:34583
DTSTAMP:20260416T023900Z
DTSTART:20260608T223000Z
DTEND:20260608T233000Z
LOCATION:Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902, Un
 ited States
ROOM: Lawson McGhee Library meeting room
DESCRIPTION:This month we will be discussing Silver Alert by Lee Smith. Th
 e discussion will be led by Martha Earl. Herb's charmed life with hi
 s dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan, in he
 r seventies, now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own 
 ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimist
 ic manicurist calling herself Renee. She sings to Susan during manicures, 
 gets her to paint, and brings her a much-needed sense of contentment. But 
 then Herb and Susan's adult children arrive to stage an intervention 
 on their stubborn, independent father, and as a consequence, Renee's 
 gig with Susan--and her grand plans for her own life--start to unravel as 
 well. Herb isn't ready to let go of all that he has ever had, and it 
 turns out that Renee is not the happy, uncomplicated girl she pretends to 
 be. She is not even Renee; she is really Dee Dee, and she, too, has reason
 s of her own to hit the road. So, when Herb suggests one last joy ride in 
 his Porsche with Dee Dee riding shotgun, they light out for parts north, s
 etting off a Silver Alert. As the unlikely friendship between Herb and Dee
  Dee deepens, we see how one life opens up as another is closing down. The
  time Dee Dee has spent--with Susan, in Key West, in the Porsche with elde
 rly Herb--reveals to her how much more truly lies ahead. Martha Earl rece
 ived her MSLS from UT and has over 35 years of experience as a medical lib
 rarian. Recently retired, she worked at the UT Preston Medical Library sin
 ce 1997 and previously helped people to find the answers at UTK, Universit
 y of Memphis, Meharry Medical College, and East Tennessee State University
 . In her first life, she taught high school math and science but quickly r
 eturned to the wonder of libraries. She lives in Knoxville, her home town,
  with her husband, son, and demanding felines, Misty, Ghost, and Rumplesoc
 kskin. 
URL:https://www.knoxcountylibrary.org/event/all-over-page-draft-34583
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