Next meeting will be Tuesday, August 13th at 7pm at Mary's lovely home.
Hopefully by then everyone will have read our next selection and share any good (trashy) summer reads.
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has gotten himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever.
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I just devoured Burgess Boys since book club on Wednesday night. Thank you, Tina, for telling us the rest of the story of Things Fall Apart. I decided not to finish it and launched into the Burgess Boys, Very well drawn interesting characters. I look forward to hearing everyone's "take" on this book.
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