Past Selections

Febuary 6th: March by Geraldine Brooks Brooks imagines what the absent father in Louise May Alcott's Little Women, Mr. March, experienced during the Civil War.  Over the course of the novel, his idealistic nature is continually challenged. Pulitzer Prize, 2006.
	March 6th: The March: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow A thought-provoking look at General Sherman's march of 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War. Perspectives of fictional and historical Union and Confederate soldiers richly illustrate this devastating event.  PEN/ Faulkner Award, 2006.
April 3rd: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley An Iowa farmer, an alcoholic father, decides to leave his 1,0000-acre farm to his three daughters. An intriguing retelling of King Lear.  Pulitzer Prize, 1992.
	May 1st: Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris The proprietor of a cafe in a French village in her 60s remembers her childhood in Nazi-occupied France . She returns to the village where she grew up to discover the truth about her family.
June 5th: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Somewhere in South America a Japanese industrialist is lured to a birthday party in his honor featuring his favorite opera singer. Terrorists take the party hostage, and over time surprising relationships form between the hostages and their captors.  PEN/ Faulkner Award, 2002.