Thursday, March 15, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Mickool Home
101 Standish Drive
Ridgefield, CT 06877
We hope you will join us this month as we discuss The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Please bring something small to share with the group – either a beverage or snack.
Please RSVP on-line here or to eveningbook@ridgefieldnewcomers.org by Thursday, March 8th.
From Amazon.com:
A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love. Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character in that very book. And although she has her hands full - keeping track of her brother, Bird (who thinks he might be the Messiah), and taking copious notes on How to Survive in the Wild - she undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With consummate, spellbinding skill, Nicole Krauss gradually draws together their stories.
It is truly a history of love: a tale brimming with laughter, irony, passion, and soaring imaginative power.
Several copies of our monthly selection will be on hold at the Ridgefield Library by mid-February. Please ask at the main circulation desk for a copy to borrow.
SAVE THE DATE: Our next meeting will be on April 26th. Book selection and further information to follow via email and next month’s newsletter. If you can host a book club gathering in June, please let us know!
Lynn Isaac & Christine Llewellyn
203-438-8142(Lynn) and 203-403-3313(Christine)
eveningbook@ridgefieldnewcomers.org
