Eleven Lakes, Endless Stories: Book Club

Calling all book lovers in the Finger Lakes region! Whether you’re a lifelong reader or just getting back into the habit, our cozy book club is the perfect place to connect, relax, and dive into great stories together. Come share books, conversation, and connection while enjoying snacks and a glass of Finger Lakes wine. All of the books we read and discuss will have a Finger Lakes connection – topic, author, and/or setting. For our June book club meeting, we will be reading a brand new book by author Paul Mitchell: Between Two Fires! Paul is a Finger Lakes local and will be leading this book club meeting! Find a link to the book, information about the author, and a brief introduction to the book below: Between Two Fires – Amazon About the Author – Paul Mitchell Jasper Parrish was eleven years old in 1778 when the American Revolution came to his Pennsylvania home. After the Battle of Wyoming Valley, he is taken from his settler family into the world of the Haudenosaunee. Adopted by a Mohawk family amid a war that engulfs the borderlands of New York and the Ohio country, he grows to manhood between peoples increasingly fractured by violence, diplomacy, and betrayal. The fragile peace after 1784 marks the beginning of a life divided between his white childhood and his Mohawk upbringing. Moving among warriors, interpreters, speculators, and statesmen, Jasper becomes both witness to and participant in the struggle for the future of the Six Nations and the expanding United States. Set against the real councils, treaties, and conflicts that reshaped the early republic, Between Two Fires is a sweeping historical novel of identity, loss, and endurance in the contested lands of revolutionary America. Above all, it is the story of extraordinary times forging an extraordinary man on his path between two worlds. Register Here!