Moke Hill Book Club

Nov 22, 2015 by contributor

Are you a reader? Come to our January meeting of the Moke Hill Book Club on Tuesday January 26 at 7 PM at the Moke Hill Library/Archives.

Our January book is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. In this novel we meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind.
Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man. And Fern, Rosemary’s beloved sister, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief? Fern’s is a fate the family, in all their innocence, could never have imagined.
Book Club details: No commitment, No attendance taken, No restrictions, No membership, No dues. Everyone who is interested in good books and discussions about them is welcome. Sponsored by the Mokelumne Hill Friends of the Library. Send us your email address to be on the mailing list; or watch for announcements on mokehill.org and other news sources. Contact Janet Dock: janetdock@me.com