After Work Book Club

Our new After Work Book Club will hold its first meeting in the library on Wednesday, May 8, from 5 pm to 6 pm. The group is reading Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby. We have copies at the library if you need one, but you are welcome to join even if you have not read the book. You will need a library card to become a member, but we can do that at no charge when you arrive (even if you are not a Gorham resident).

Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.

The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.

Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed of his father’s criminal record. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.

Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.

Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change – and maybe even redemption.

Macmillan Publishers.

North Gorham Library is located at 2 Standish Neck Road, Gorham, ME 04038. Our phone number is 207-892-2575