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1:30 pm: Words with Friends Book Club

Invitation to the "Words with Friends" book club on September 1, 2026, discussing "Nothing to See Here" by Kevin Wilson at Carlock Library.
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Overview: Kevin Wilson’s bestselling third novel, Nothing to See Here, is the story of 28-year-old Lillian Breaker who accepts a job at a Tennessee mansion to look after—and hide from public view—two ten-year-old twins who burst into flames when they get agitated. Over one hot summer, everything she thought she knew about love, family, and empathy is turned irreversibly upside down. “It’s a giddily lunatic premise, one that author Kevin Wilson grounds with humor and deadpan matter-of-factness….But what dazzles most are the warmly rendered dynamics of an ad hoc, dysfunctional family that desperately wants to work” (USA Today). Wilson “distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn’t see coming” (New York Times Book Review). This “big-hearted” and “bizarre” novel (Chicago Review of Books) is a “funny and touching fable about love for kids, even the ones on fire” (Kirkus).