What we’re about
This is an informal book club which discusses a variety of books while enjoying brunch with friends both old and new. We try to pick a variety of categories to read from, and restaurants to visit. This group is for anyone who enjoys a good book and understands that it can be more interesting with a great discussion.. The selected titles will be chosen by suggestions from members.
Most members are women in their 40’s and up. This is not a rule, just a guide!
Discussions will be held in person again starting 5-16-21! Suggestions for brunch/lunch locations are welcome.
The meetup will be begin at 11:30 am on the third Sunday each month. Meetings typically run 2 hours, more or less.
Annual dues are $ 12.00, payable upon joining.
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See all- JUNE 2024 Book - "Demon Copperhead " by Barbara KingsolverMcKenzie Brew House, Malvern, PA
Nominee for Best Fiction (2022)
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
