OTown Reads: Custodians of Wonder, by Eliot Stein

Have you ever wondered if a tree could have a mailing address or if bees understand what we say to them?

Perhaps you’ll find your answer in the next OTown Reads Book Club selection: Custodians of Wonder, by Eliot Stein. Within the pages of this fascinating book, you’ll read about “10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions.” (bookshop.org)

Stein introduces readers to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world's rarest pasta from one of the only women alive who knows how to make it. And in India, he discovers a family rumored to make a mysterious metal mirror believed to reveal your truest self. From shadowing Scandinavia's last night watchman to meeting a 27th-generation West African griot to tracking down Cuba's last official cigar factory “readers” more than a century after they spearheaded the fight for Cuban independence, Stein uncovers an almost lost world. (bookshop.org)

We can’t wait to share this book with you. Stop by and pick up your copy for 10% off (if you join OTown Reads) and then join the in-person discussion on May 22.

No cost to join. But the value-add is priceless.