Fiction Lovers Club to read Small Island
By Lamont Neal on Thursday, October 14th, 2010 |
The Fiction Lovers' Book Club will meet at 6:30pm on November 9 by the fireplace at Huntington City-Township Public Library, located at 255 West Park Drive, Huntington. This month, book club members are reading the Whitbread Award-winning novel, Small Island by Andrea Levy.
Small Island by Andrea Levy - Book Description:
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve.
Told in these four voices, Small Island is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life.
Born in 1956 to Jamaican parents, Andrea Levy is the author of three previous novels and has received a British Arts Council Writers Award in addition to the Orange Prize and Whitbread distinctions. She lives and works in London.
Next month, the group will be reading A Light in the Window, the first in the bestselling Mitford series of books by Jan Karon.
Fiction Lovers' Book Club meets at 6:30 PM on the second Tuesday of the month. Call the Library at 260-356-0824 if you'd like to read this month's selection. Coffee, tea, and snacks are provided, and new members are always welcome!
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