Led by Claudia Cayne, this informal group meets on the second Saturday of each month (unless otherwise noted) at 4:00 PM in the Reading Room. Our October meeting is on the third Saturday, October 18th, because the library will be hosting events for Salisbury's Annual Fall Festival from October 10th through 12th. 

A limited number of copies of CLEAR are available for loan at the library.

Registration is not required. All are welcome for one or all of the lively and informal Current Fiction discussions.

Claudia's selection for October is Clear, by Carys Davies, a best book of 2024 choice by the New York Times, Vogue, the Guardian, Washington Post, and NPR, winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and Winner of the Wales Book of the Year.

John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland, Ivar, who has been living alone for decades. Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff and is found, unconscious and badly injured, by Ivar who takes him home and tends to his wounds. Unfolding during the final stages of the infamous Scottish Clearances, a period of the 19th century which saw whole communities of the rural poor driven off the land in a relentless program of forced evictions, this novel explores what binds us together in the face of insurmountable difference, the way history shapes our deepest convictions, and how the human spirit can endure despite all odds.

SML's Current Fiction Book Group meets September 2025 through June 2026. For a look at book selections ahead, please visit this link.