Chiswell Book Club March Meeting

Every other month, Chiswell’s avid readers and wine enthusiasts are getting together to deep dive on a new and exciting book! Join us for cozy times, compelling discussion, and (naturally) just the right wine to pair with our book.

March’s Book: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

2025 | Epistolary Fiction | Family Life

From the publisher:
“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle… Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”

Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters — to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.

Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has — a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.

Sybil Van Antwerp’s life of letters might be “a very small thing,” but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read.

The Chiswell Book Club

The Chiswell Book Club meets every other month, with each book chosen by the previous meeting’s attendees. Our 2026 meetings:

Sunday, Jan. 25 Sunday, February 1 | 1–3 PM | Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Sunday, March 22 | 1–3 PM | The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Sunday, May 24 | 1–3 PM | Book TBA
Sunday, July 26 | 1–3 PM | Book TBA
Sunday, September 27 | 1–3 PM | Book TBA
Sunday, November 22 | 1–3 PM | Book TBA

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