2008

Our book group choice for February 2008 is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. It is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years, from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding, that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms.

Our book group choice for January 2008 is The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy. “H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister during the first World War, famously said that the job of Prime Minister “is what its holder chooses and is able to make of it.”