Book Club

Book Club reading Paradise, by Abdulrazak Gurnah; recommended by Friendship Force International.

Note it's the fourth Monday this month! Contact Marjie Marion for the Zoom link in advance.

New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. It was the Twins' debut season; the country had a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited often and took many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank was forced to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Forty years later, ...

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Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, ...

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The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle The story of immigration conflict in California, told through the eyes of two very different couples, one well-off Anglos, the other undocumented Mexican immigrants living in a canyon. The novel chronicles their relationship against the background of growing hostility between immigrants and native Anglos. Contact Marjie Marion for the ...

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Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny. This coming of age story weaves plenty of Maori culture into the mix. Contact Marjie for the Zoom information.

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Gathering in person. Contact Gail Holmes at glholmes@wisc.edu for the location.

The Sentence: A Novel by Louise Erdrich tells a funny ghost story, a tale of passion, a complex marriage, and a woman’s relentless errors. Set in a Minneapolis bookstore from All Souls’ Day for a one year period.

And without further ado, the book for November will be The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton.  We will meet to discuss on Monday, Nov. 18 at 7:00 by zoom.  Club member Dorothy Baldwin recommends this book, especially as it ties into the climate meeting attended by some members during the recent FF Conference in Milwaukee.

Our next meeting will also take place by zoom on Monday February 16, 7:00.  We will discuss Patriot by Alexei Navalny (2024). " This is a powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Alexei Navalny began writing the Patriot shortly after his near fatal poisoning ...

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