Burning Books
The Trinity book club, called Burning Books, meets at members’ homes throughout the year to read books selected by the group and enjoy each other’s company. All interested readers are welcome to join the group. You do not need to be a member of the parish to join Burning Books, and you do not need to finish the book to attend the discussion.
Our next selection is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
We'll meet on Monday, September 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Other books we have read recently include “Naming Names” by Victor Navasky, a winner of the National Book Award. The New York Times wrote, “The moral issues raised by the Hollywood blacklist remain fearfully complex, and Victor Navasky confronts them with almost exquisite precision.
Upcoming Burning Books Meetings
Sep
09
Monday
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
After coming to the end of The Lincoln Highway, our next book journey brings us to Barbara Kingsolver's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Demon Copperhead (560 pp). Inspired by Dickens' David Copperfield, it's "the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival." Amazon goes on to say, "In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story."