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Tuesday Evening Book ClubFebruary 2018
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Our upcoming meeting in February:
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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
Documents the story of a long-time New Orleans resident who was forced to stay behind during Hurricane Katrina while the rest of his family evacuated, describing how he spent days after the storm traveling by canoe to feed abandoned animals before he was inexplicably arrested.
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Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel
by Maria Semple
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her in this novel from the author of This One is Mine.
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Fasting and feasting : the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray
by Adam Federman
Patience Gray wrote about what today we would call the Slow Food movement long before it became part of the cultural mainstream. Federman tells of her untold story: from her privileged upbringing, being a single mother during WWII, her career, and describing her travels and culinary adventures.
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Little bee
by Chris Cleave
Presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women.
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