March's Middletown Book for Discussion: Absolution (March 22)

 

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The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, March 22.  Our title is Alice McDermott's Absolution.  Here is a brief summary:

"American women―American wives―have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era’s mandate to be “helpmeets” to their ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to “do good” for the people of Vietnam."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  In addition to discussing The Guncle, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their February 26 meeting:

• The Editor, Steven Rowley (also The Guncle Abroad and the Celebrants)
  
• Famous Father Girl, Jamie Bernstein
• Someone Else's Shoes, Jojo Moyes
• The Wind Knows My Name, Isabel Allende
• Endpapers, Jennifer Savran Kelly 
• Horse, Geraldine Brooks
• Under Orders, Dick Francis
  
• All About Me!, Mel Brooks
  
• Maisie Dobbs series, Jacqueline Winspear
• A Bakery in Paris, Aimie Runyan
• The Women, Kristin Hannah
• Spare, Prince Harry
• The Book of Delights (and the Book of More Delights), Ross Gay
• Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin

We will meet at 12 pm on the 22nd both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

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Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

John

"1963 Downtown Saigon" by manhhai is licensed under CC BY 2.0.