The October selection for the Radio Book Club is Leif Enger’s new novel Virgil Wander. This is the first novel in ten years from the award-winning, million-copy bestselling author of Peace Like a River follows the inhabitants of a Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart.
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Hear more of the conversation with Leif Enger in our After Hours edition, in which he talks about life in small-town America and the joys of classic movies.
The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore, selects a book to inspire listeners to read along together. The author will then join us in-studio for a discussion which we broadcast on the 4th Thursday of every month at 9am.


Radio Bookclub: Leif Enger – Virgil Wander

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