Fairfax Library Book Discussion Group
Thursday, April 9th 7pm
To the Bright Edge of the World
By Eowyn Ivey
I hope you are surviving these strange times during the Shelter in Place order.
The Fairfax Library Book Discussion Group will meet virtually on Zoom Thursday, April 9th at 7pm to discuss our April selection, To the Bright Edge of the World
Here are some links for additional background and info:
Lt. Henry Allen’s bio on Wikipedia (he had a long career afterwards)
UPCOMING BOOKS
Thursday, May 14th
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
The Great
Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior--hold 20 percent of the
world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and
recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as
never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death
and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's compulsively
readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes,
blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they
face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come. ~
dust jacket
Thursday, June 11th
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Halliday's beautiful debut novel is written in
three distinct parts. In the first, Alice, a young editor in New York, embarks
on a relationship with Ezra, a much older, multi-Pulitzer Prize-winning
novelist. In the novel's second part, readers meet Amar, an Iraqi American who
is being detained at Heathrow Airport en route to his brother in Kurdistan.
Amar's story is told mostly in flashbacks, illuminating both the joys of his
family and also the tragedies of a war-torn country and its people. Amar's and
Alice's stories are, at first glance, completely unrelated and can easily be
enjoyed as such. Halliday moves from sparse, purposeful prose in the first to
an almost brooding narration in the second, and only the lightest touches seem
to link them, until one final moment. The third and final section is an
interview with Ezra, and it is here that Halliday deftly and subtly intersects
the two disparate stories, resulting in a deep rumination on the relation of
art to life and death. ~Booklist
