Vermont Reads Book Discussion | Tuesday, September 15th at 5PM

Dorset Village Library

Join us for a community book discussion of this year’s Vermont Reads 2026 selection, Charity & Sylvia, written by Vermont cartoonist and illustrator Tillie Walden. A limited number of free copies of the book are available at the library. No registration required.

About the book: The month is February in the year 1807. The place is Weybridge, Vermont: small, cold, lonely, and beautiful. Sylvia Drake is exhausted. As an unwed woman with few prospects, she is residing with and caring for her sister’s rambunctious family. Today the house is abuzz awaiting a guest—Charity Bryant, a friend of the family. But Charity’s visit is a guise, she is coming to Vermont to start over after heartbreak and rumours—so many rumours—that have grown too loud back in Massachusetts. Being openly gay in 19th century New England is not an easy row to hoe. But Charity can only be herself, and she immediately catches—and holds—the eye of none other than Sylvia Drake. From this point on, for 44 years, the two would be inseparable, building a life together in small town Vermont.