The Page Turners Book Club June selection is Anne Tyler’s Redhead by the Side of the Road. Anne Tyler is one of America’s most prolific authors, having written more than 20 novels including Breathing Lessons which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “Her subject in all her novels has been the American family and marriage: the boredom
and exasperating irritants endured by partners, children, siblings, parents; the desire for freedom pulling against the tethers of attachments and conflicted love; the evolution over time of familial love and sense of duty … because of her style she has been compared to John Updike, Jane Austen and Eudora Welty …” Redhead, in the words of the publisher, is a novel about “misperception, second chances and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.”
This month the group has its bi-annual joint meeting. This is a general discussion and social meeting featuring our long standing fun “blind book exchange” and the enjoyment of tasty “goodies” supplied by the members.
The groups meet on the fourth Monday and fourth Thursday of the month. For information on the Thursday groups contact Steve and Ann Morris at samwrsi@cox.net and for the Monday group contact me at fozimec@cox.net.
—Frances Ozimec
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