The Butterfly Effect

Small Decisions, Epic Impacts

Every day we make decisions. Sometimes, we know these decisions will be life-altering, which helps us to anticipate the consequences. At other times, the decisions seem so small in relation to the big picture that we don't think twice and often forget about them immediately after they are made. It's these seemingly irrelevant moments, however that often have the biggest effects - and perhaps so far-reaching that it is impossible for us to detect just how much our small decision may have changed the course of our lives - and the lives of others - forever.

The Butterfly Effect. A simple idea derived from a complex physical theory: The flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil can lead to a tornado in Texas. This fall, we have selected four novels that bring this idea to the pages of the book. These critically-acclaimed and award-winning stories are epic - in both the stories themselves and the authors' abilities to write them. The books are enthralling... thought  inducing... heartbreaking... passionate... complicated... and above all, discussion-worthy.

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese	Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann	Room by Emma Donoghue (Available in mid-September)	The Passage by Justin Cronin
Tuesday, September 28 7 PM	Tuesday, October 12 7 PM	Tuesday, November 2 7 PM	Tuesday, November 16 7 PM