Our book choice for April 2013 is The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt. This will be our second Hustvedt choice, our Christmas 2005 selection was The Enchantment of Lily Dahl. Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City.
Our book choice for March 2013 is Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River.
Our book choice for February 2013 is Therese Raquin by Emile Zola. One of Zola’s most famous realistic novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society.
The book choice for January 2013 is Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford. Love in a Cold Climate focuses on the love life of young heiress Polly Hampton, a friend and neighbor of the Radletts.
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