Book Club update
By Joe Kennedy
What a wonderful time the Book Club had Wednesday, April 17th at Crawford County Democratic Headquarters to discuss the novel "Trust" by Hernan Diaz. Everyone brought a dish to share and we had a book lovers feast before diving into discussion. A good deal of the discussion centered around the book but our sideline discussions such as funny things that happened at weddings (not sure how we got into that one) were hysterical. Come to our next Book Club for some good food, stimulating conversation, laughs and a warm, good feeling friends bring.
Due to activities and schedules in May we are not meeting until June. We plan to meet again on June 19th at 6:30 PM at Crawford County Democratic Headquarters. An email reminder will be sent to all on our book club list. If you have a friend interested, send me their name and email address at jfk1308@gmail.com. The book for June is "Ordinary Grace" , a novel by William Kent Krueger. A synopsis from the internet is below.
“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”
New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.
Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family—which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother—he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years.
Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.
