Event: IHSI Book Club Luncheon and Discussion

Host: Marilyn Rowlett

Date & Time: July 24th 12:00-2:30 EDT

Location: Meridian Hills Country Club located at 7099 Spring Mill Rd., Indianapolis, Indiana 46260

RSVP to Marilyn Rowlett at [email protected] by Tuesday July 23rd.

Book Club Selection: Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride

Summary: James McBride turns his extraordinary gift for storytelling to fiction—in a universal tale of courage and redemption inspired by a little-known historic event. In Miracle at St. Anna, toward the end of World War II, four Buffalo Soldiers from the Army’s Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema—in the peasants who shelter them, in the unspoken affection of an orphaned child, in a newfound faith in fellow man. And even in the face of unspeakable tragedy, they—and we—learn to see the small miracles of life.  This acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture directed by Spike Lee.