Adult
Enrichment and Fellowship
Women's Book Group
Welcome!! Please join us. Even if you haven't
read the book... Come and enjoy the fellowship and
lively discussions.
October (Saturday, Oct. 29th 8:30 am)
At Susan
Morgridge’s home — For more information, phone 779-9779
Book: “Four Spirits: A Novel”
by
Sena Jeter Naslund
The
author of Ahab's Wife (Morrow, 1999), a feminist
corrective to Moby-Dick, has picked an equally
ambitious subject for this novel: the racial
injustice, hatred, and horror of Birmingham,
Alabama, circa 1963. The characters pivot
around Stella Silver, a white college student who is
horrified by the glee in her community when John F.
Kennedy is assassinated, and who is moved to
activism. In its authentic, balanced evocation
of daily life across a wide spectrum of the black
and white communities, this novel justifies its
length and measured pace, and credibly renders the
faith and courage that brought redemption to a
blood-soaked city. (Amazon.com review)
November (Time, Date & Place to be decided)
Book: "The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
Mark
Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel,
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,
is a murder mystery of sorts -- one told by an
autistic version of Adrian Mole.
Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is
mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised
in a working-class home by parents who can barely
cope with their child's quirks. He takes
everything that he sees (or is told) at face value,
and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of
his elders and peers. (Amazon.com review)
