NL Writers and Friends (Book Club)
| Join us this winter as we discuss the work of two of this province’s most distinguished authors. Then hear what the authors themselves have to say. Chad Pelley, award-winning author of Away From Everywhere will guide group discussions, making this a fun and engaging opportunity for all book lovers! Author's will present to join the discussions! |
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February by Lisa Moore In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All 84 men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns. It begins in the present-day, but spirals back again and again to the February that persists in Helen's mind and heart. In her external life, Helen O'Mara cleans and does yoga and looks after her grandchildren and shakes hands with solitude. In her internal life, she continually revisits Cal. Then, one night she gets a phone call: her son John is coming home. He has made a girl pregnant after a brief, sex-filled week in Iceland. As John grapples with what it might mean to be a father, Helen comes to terms with her need to remember the dead. Writing at the peak of her form, her steadfast refusal to sentimentalize coupled with an almost shocking ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds, Lisa Moore gives us her strongest work yet. Here is a novel about complex love and cauterizing grief, about past and present and how memory knits them together, about a fiercely close community and its universal struggles, and finally about our need to imagine a future, no matter how fragile. A profound, gorgeous, heart-stopping work from one of our best writers. Mon., Jan. 31, 7 - 9 p.m., $12. Facilitator: Chad Pelley. |
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Where Old Ghosts Meet by Kate Evans Molloy, bright and educated, longs to leave behind his miserable existence on a small farm in Ireland. He yields to pressure and sets aside his dream until one day, he walks away, leaving his wife and small son to fend for themselves. In the summer of 1971, his granddaughter Nora finds herself in Shoal Cove, Newfoundland, where Peg Barry reveals the secrets of Matthew's reclusive life. The story slips back and forth between Ireland in the early 1900s, a country struggling to rediscover its identity and restore its nationhood, and Newfoundland in the 1940s, a country about to relinquish its nationhood and join Canada. Mon., March 7, 7 - 9 p.m., $12. Facilitator: Chad Pelley. |
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Reserve your space today! Call (864-7979) or click the book titles to register. |
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