The Perry Public Library has announced the 2022 All Iowa Reads community book discussion, scheduled for Tuesday, April 19 at 7 p.m. in the library Community Room.
The selected title for the 2022 event is “The Butterfly Effect” by Rachel Mans McKenny.
The annual All Iowa Reads event is an opportunity for people in the same community to gather together to discuss a single book with an Iowa or Midwest connection. This year’s event will be led by guest facilitator George Minot of Iowa City.
The is a free event and open to the public. Books will be available to check out or to purchase for a nominal price at the library for interested readers. For more information about All Iowa Reads, visit the Iowa Center for the Book website.
According to Penguin Random House, which published “The Butterfly Effect”:
Is there such a thing as an anti-social butterfly? If there were, Greta Oto would know about it — and totally relate. An entomologist, Greta far prefers the company of bugs to humans, and that’s okay, because people don’t seem to like her all that much anyway, with the exception of her twin brother, Danny, though they’ve recently had a falling out. So when she lands a research gig in the rainforest, she leaves it all behind.
But when Greta learns that Danny has suffered an aneurysm and is now hospitalized, she abandons her research and hurries home to the middle of nowhere America to be there for her brother. But there’s only so much she can do, and unfortunately just like insects, humans don’t stay cooped up in their hives either — they buzz about and . . . socialize. Coming home means confronting all that she left behind, including her lousy soon-to-be sister-in-law, her estranged mother and her ex-boyfriend Brandon, who has conveniently found a new non-lab-exclusive partner with shiny hair, perfect teeth and can actually remember the names of the people she meets right away. Being that Brandon runs the only butterfly conservatory in town, and her dissertation is now in jeopardy, taking that job, being back home, it’s all creating chaos of Greta’s perfectly catalogued and compartmentalized world. But real life is messy, and Greta will have to ask herself if she has the courage to open up for the people she loves, and for those who want to love her.
The Butterfly Effect is an unconventional tale of self-discovery, navigating relationships, and how sometimes it takes stepping outside of our comfort zone to find what we need the most.
