Meet other locals who are interested in getting together and discussing books chosen by the members of our group.
We haven't read Atwood for a while and this is one of her best.Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Surfacing is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole.
This one was on my "Let's read it" list for a while
There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year round. The women are pregnant, the men drun , and the children frow all around and around. This novel pulses with curious, kinetic, very American Energy and a lot of people who each have their own stories to telll
