Bel Canto

The bestselling 2001 novel “Bel Canto,” by award winning author Ann Patchett will be the subject of this month’s Lake Placid Institute Book Club meeting.

The story is about a famous soprano hired at great expense to sing at a birthday party for an Asian industrialist in South America. She and an international list of guests are taken hostage by terrorists looking to capture the country’s president, who, as luck would have it, stayed home to watch a soap opera.

The LPPL book club generally meets on the last Monday of the month from September through June. All are invited to attend.