Hybrid Fiction Book Club - Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting, by Clare Pooley

Library : Mansfield Public Library

Location : Mansfield Public Library Mansfield Public Library, 255 Hope St., Mansfield, MA, 02048

Start : Thursday 18th of December 2025 6:30 PM

End : Thursday 18th of December 2025 7:30 PM

Description :

The Library Book Club meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm (unless otherwise noted). New members are always welcome and encouraged to attend! “Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Bookworm and Terribly-Lonely-Teenager. Of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do. Then one morning, the man she calls Smart-But-Sexist-Manspreader chokes on a grape right in front of her. He’d have died were it not for the timely intervention of Sanjay, a nurse, who gives him the Heimlich maneuver. This single event starts a chain reaction, and an eclectic group of people with almost nothing in common except their commute discover that a chance encounter can blossom into much more. It turns out that talking to strangers can teach you about the world around you–and even more about yourself.“–Publisher mansfieldlibraryma.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/hybrid-fiction-book-club-iona-iversons-rules-for-commuting-by-clare-pooley/