The Next Chapter Book Club helps people with disabilities enjoy books, friends, and their community. In normal times, our group meets weekly in the neighborhood of our first two Friendship Houses at Dozen Bakery. Our friends visit, and read a book together, enjoying the experience of being transported to different worlds where they meet interesting characters and learn about exciting new things. Taking that journey with a group of friends makes it even more fun. Even though they’ll be reading together virtually for the time being, they’ll be reading together via Zoom.

The group is completing The Pigman by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Zindel. When high school sophomores John and Lorraine made a prank phone call to an elderly stranger named Angelo Pignati, what starts as a practical joke quickly turns into a friendship that changes all of their lives forever.

This week’s facilitator is Janice Duffy..