Community Book Club—Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Are you looking to connect with others? Do you love reading all kinds of books? If you answered yes, the Community Book Club is for you!

Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel—Cloud Cuckoo Land—is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.

The Community Book Club meets every other Thursday evening, beginning January 13, via Zoom.

To register, send an email to community@iit.edu, and you will receive the meeting credentials.