Retirement Prep Book Club: “Decadence”

Join recent retiree, Gregg Fonde, aka as “Penny’s husband” on November 19th at 4pm. You don’t need to be retired, but maybe you’re on the verge or just looking for a new hobby, a new group of people, something to chat about. Come have a conversation, meet some new folks, find a great story.

“In Decadence, Richard Kelly Kemick's "accidental memoir of a sort," the author ranges widely through his myriad preoccupations and obsessions--volleyball, municipal landfills, dogs, high school plays, Christmas villages, love--out of which the shape of a unique sensibility is revealed. Reminiscent of the three Davids--Rakoff, Sedaris, and Wallace--these essays accrete into a portrait of a man trying to make sense of a world in which there are no goddamn rules; and yet one in which every action has sometimes profound consequences. A book of intelligence and care and kindness and humour and yearning and the occasional epiphany, Decadence gathers up from the odds and ends of living what makes a modern life--quiet and desperate as it may at times be--worth celebrating.”