June 2019

Our June meeting will be on June 28th, 2019. Mae will be the hostess, Fran will bring book selections and Denise will lead the discussion.

We will be reading In the Midst of Winter, by Isabel Allende, published in 2017.

Some quotes from reviews of this book:

"It’s when revealing the characters’ harrowing past lives in other countries that the generous and unflagging energy that characterized Allende’s debut, The House of the Spirits, can most clearly be felt." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Allende has a rare and precious gift for simultaneously challenging and entrancing readers by dramatizing with startling intimacy such dire situations as the desperation behind illegal immigration and domestic violence, then reveling, a page later, in spiritual visions or mischievous sexiness or heroic levity." (Booklist (starred review))
"This winter's tale has something to melt each frozen heart." (Kirkus)

There are plenty of copies of this book in the Contra Costa Library, as well as one CD, and one e-book. 

This will be our third book by Isabel Allende. Our very first book (in April 2000) was Daughter of Fortune, and in 2017 we read Zorro.