Afternoon Book Club: Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton

A mystery that explores the power of secrets, childhood friendship, and nature, Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton, is Winfield Public Library’s April selection for Afternoon Book Club.  All are welcome to join the book discussion on Wednesday, April 27^th at 2:30pm. 

Published in 2021, Dalton’s debut novel was named a Most Anticipated book by Newsweek, USA Today, CNN, Parade, Buzzfeed, Medium, GoodReads, and more, and was selected to meet WPL’s April Reading Challenge of “a book that relates to climate or weather.”  It is 336 pages long, and has a 3.4 rating on goodreads.  From the publisher:                                    

Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth.  One moment.  But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?

An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cade, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home.  There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie’s memory than all her other years combined.

Now grown up, bound by long-held oaths, and faced with truths she does not wish to see, Cadie must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers and locals.

Waiting for the Night Song is a love song to the natural beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the truth will always rise.