CState Book Club invites you to discuss “Signal Fires” on June 27

The Cincinnati State Book Club invites all faculty and staff members to join the discussion on Thursday, June 27, of the novel Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro.

• The meeting will start at 4:30 p.m. in the Library Conference Room.
• All are welcome to join the casual conversation– even if you haven’t finished reading the book! It’s also OK if you need to arrive after 4:30.

Signal Fires, a TIME magazine selection as Best Fiction of the Year for 2023, is described by the publisher as “a riveting, deeply felt novel that examines the ties that bind families together—and the secrets that can break them apart.”

The publisher’s summary says:

Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken.

On Division Street, time has moved on. When the Shenkmans arrive—a young couple expecting a baby boy—it is as if the accident never happened. But when Waldo, the Shenkmans’ brilliant, lonely son who marvels at the beauty of the world and has a native ability to find connections in everything, befriends Dr. Wilf, now retired and struggling with his wife’s decline, past events come hurtling back in ways no one could ever have foreseen.

Questions about Book Club? Contact Library Director Crissy Ross (crissy.ross@cincinnatistate.edu).