We're excited to announce our next “OTOWN READS” book: World’s End, by TC Boyle.

This wild ride of a novel takes place in familiar territory: Our own Hudson Valley, focusing mostly on a fictional Peekskill and surrounding areas. It spans several generations of some of the most unforgettable characters you will ever meet in print, including some who might or might not be based on real history. Woven into the pages are true historic events, such as the Peekskill riots of 1949.

Come and purchase your copy! It's available now at the Bookstore - at 10% off for Book Club participants.

We’ll have weekly activities, prizes and events, and the culminating Big Book Club party on Sunday, March 19 at 5 PM. (Mark your calendars now!)

Read some reviews below. And please let us know if you are planning to take part by RSVPing here for the March 19 Big Book Club Party.

From The Guardian: 

“Zooming between historical periods with high-octane prose, this book is something like a Kerouac novel you can enjoy as an adult.

[It  showcases Boyle] at his best, throwing history and myth and countercultural anger into a melting p(l)ot that vaults ambitiously between three periods of history in New York's Hudson Valley: the 1600s, the 1940s and the late 1960s.” 

From John Sloan:

“Boyle…breathes life into his characters with a dazzling range of ideas. The importance of history, treachery and duplicity, the political right and left, foolhardiness and stupidity, and anger and violence play out in a chaotic but tightly-circumscribed world of storms and freezing temperatures, a terrifying dark marine graveyard, stinking filthy hovels, and angry drunken fighting late at night. This author’s rich enthusiasm for the dark, dirty, human collision of power and its subjects, Dutch, English, and natives, fills the narrative up to the top.”