Hi everyone, and thanks again for a lovely March meeting!
I think we can all agree that A Thousand Splendid Suns was a beautifully written and thoroughly enjoyable read.
And now... on to April! Next month our host is Sarah Dobranowski, who has chosen the novel Clara Callan by author Richard Wright. Here is a description of the book - it sounds great!
Clara Callan is set in the middle of the Great Depression, chronicling the lives of two sisters.Clara is a spinsterish school teacher whose quiet life in a small Ontario town masks a passion for love and adventure. Nora, her flighty and very pretty sister, travels to New York where she lands a starring role in a radio soap opera. Written in diary and letter form, the novel brilliantly reveals the sisters' stories, as their lives become increasingly complex.
With Wright's extraordinary eye for small but telling details, the world of the thirties comes vividly to life, an era when show business was in its infancy, and the Dionnes grabbed the headlines, when Automats were a futuristic way of buying fast food and the Women's Auxiliary still ruled the social roost in small towns everywhere. Above all, Wright's portrait draws a world of young women -- pre-divorce, pre-Pill, pre-liberation, where judgment weighed heavily upon anyone who defied convention.
Clara Callan is so elegantly and seamlessly constructed that the reader enters it effortlessly and does not depart willingly.
It sounds like a great pick!
Happy reading ladies!
S
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