Bel Canto Novel by Ann Patchett

Moms In Their Prime Book Club (Moms 40+) is reading the NYT bestseller, Bel Canto, this month of February. We'll meet at Yamato Sushi in Timonium at 6:00 PM. The restaurant is BYOB. I'll have book club questions for the group, but no worries if you didn't finish the entire book. You're absolutely still welcome to join us. Looking forward to meeting you!

Bel Canto is a 2001 novel by Ann Patchett about a hostage situation in an unspecified South American country, inspired by the 1996 Lima hostage crisis. A band of terrorists takes a group of international guests hostage at a birthday party, but the standoff evolves as unexpected bonds, friendships, and romances form between the captors and captives, centered around the world-renowned soprano Roxane Coss and her connection with a Japanese businessman. The novel explores themes of language, communication, and finding beauty in crisis, winning the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction.