Book Club in a Bag Kits - Fiction
Current Fiction Titles:
"This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale...is based on the authors own experiences and chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he seems destined to live." shermanalexie.com
"The compelling story highlights the losses and disjointedness of life and the many paths back to healing for those who seek the way." Booklist
"In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion." Amazon.com
"Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller...is a serious page-turner...little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo." Amazon.com
"A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology." Amazon.com
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
"With pitch-perfect tone and an unerring facility for character and setting, Stockett’s richly accomplished debut novel inventively explores the unspoken ways in which the nascent civil rights and feminist movements threatened the southern status quo." Booklist
"With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters." Amazon.com
"Picoult blends elements of psychology and spirituality into a mesmerizing morality play, where conventional notions of faith and honesty are put to the test by a seemingly impossible series of extraordinary events." Booklist
"...Khaled Hosseini...provide[s] an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil...while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over." Amazon.com
"The Lace Reader retains the strange magic of a vivid dream, though Barry's portrayal of modern-day Salem, Massachusetts--with its fascinating cast of eccentrics--is reportedly spot-on. Some of its stranger residents include generations of Whitney women, with a gift for seeing the future in the lace they make." Amazon.com
March
by Geraldine Brooks
"Brooks's luminous second novel...imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women." Publisher's Weekly
"Readers experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her...reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams." Amazon.com
"First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this [is the] tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land....Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work...lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles." Amazon.com
"The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding...." Publisher's Weekly
"An American western with a most unusual twist, this is an imaginative fictional account of the participation of May Dodd and others in the controversial 'Brides for Indians' program..." Booklist
"See's engrossing novel set in remote 19th-century China details the deeply affecting story of lifelong, intimate friends (laotong, or "old sames") Lily and Snow Flower, their imprisonment by rigid codes of conduct for women and their betrayal by pride and love." Publisher's Weekly
"The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought." Amazon.com
"Contending with ghosts and with a (mostly) scary bunch of living people, Setterfield's sensible heroine is...unprepared for both heartache and romance." Publisher's Weekly
"Lee's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel... quietly stands as one of the most powerful statements of the Civil Rights movement." Publisher's Weekly
"This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision." barnesandnoble.com
"A fictionalized memoir set during the Sudanese civil war...the result is a horrific account of the Sudanese tragedy, but also an emblematic saga of modernity-of the search for home and self in a world of unending upheaval." Publisher's Weekly
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into [t]his classic...while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Amazon.com
"With...a rigorous regard for period detail...Brooks re-creates a year in the life of a remote British village decimated by the bubonic plague." Publisher's Weekly
*Includes two large print copies
