Please register the titles at least a month before you will meet to discuss them. Some groups register their titles as much as a year in advance, but most choose month by month. Everett is the everyman, delivering the puzzles of our century and channeling its great voices, including those of Einstein, Sinatra, and Wittgenstein. This British literary thriller tells the story of a suburban family slowly losing control. Geordie is preoccupied with memories of WWI, while his grandson Nick is preoccupied with the needs of his pregnant wife, their toddler son, and her two teenagers from a previous relationship.
Barker is a Booker Prize winner.
He also becomes close to fellow Indian students, activists who want to stop their country s approach towards that same kind of materialism. This fascinating, inventive epic set in 1857 brings together a ship called Sincerity, a minister convinced that the Garden of Eden was located in Tasmania, and his wacky crew. Tasmania, of course, where they will meet a formidable aborigine named Peevay. This novel, a Booker Prize finalist, is heady and hilarious. The authors dedicate this incisive, informative book to feminists everywhere including those of our generation who say, I m not a feminist, but and others who say, I am a feminist, but with the faith that young women will transform the world in ways we haven t yet imagined.