September 2011 meeting

Our September meeting will be on September 23rd.
Lisa will bring food
Sheila will bring books for October and
Sherrie will facilitate our discussion

We selected The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi Durrow. The Library Journal says this:

Durrow's first novel, inspired by a real event, won the 2008 Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice. The young protagonist, Rachel, is the only survivor after her mother apparently threw her and her two siblings from a roof and then jumped to her own death. Like a good mystery, this book builds to the startling revelation of what really happened and why a loving mother would kill her children. But there's much more, and if the novel has a weakness, it's that it oozes conflict. Rachel, who is biracial, is abandoned by her father; a boy who witnesses the rooftop incident has his own difficulties, including a neglectful mother who's also a prostitute. But one can't help but be drawn in by these characters and by the novel's exploration of race and identity.

I am often asked, what books were not selected? and they were

Street of a Thousand Blossoms, by Gail Tsukiyama
Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
Little Bee, by Chris Cleaves


See you Sept 23rd!