On February 12, 2015 our meeting was held at Nettie's home to discuss Janet's choice, "A Land more kind than home" by Wiley Cash.
The members present were Kathy, Sarah, Betsy, Janet, Donna, Julie, Nancy, Madeleine, and Nettie.
We ordered pizza and Janet led a lively discussion of the author's debut novel.
We agreed that the narrating from 3 persons' point of view made a more interesting story.
We also liked how the author really captured Appalachia, it's vernacular and it's denizens.
We marveled that such corrupt evil religious practices with snakes and poisonous potions could take hold of people like a drug to the extent that it did in that town. Eventually we saw that it was the old good versus evil tale and discussed which characters represented those sides. We also saw redemption for the errant grandfather as he steps up to care for the boy whose father is dead and abandoned by the mother. It was a definite tragedy but when asked to compare it to a Shakespearean tragedy we were at a loss for words.
Sue was recovering from surgery so Donna stepped up and chose a book called, "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr. It is about a blind girl and a German soldier whose path cross in France during world war 2. We picked April 1 for the next meeting. Let us hope that works for Sue who will choose the next read.
