The Ladies Book Club will meet at 6:00 at the north side Village Inn for dinner and/or dessert and for discussion of any books you've recently read. Meetings will be the second Monday of every other month beginning in January, 2010. (January 11, March 8, May 10, July 12, September 13, & November 8.)
Suggested reading
for the meeting of September 13.
Select one or both of these books.
The Memory
Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim
Edwards
In 1964, when a
blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he
immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes
a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever.
He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and
to keep her birth a secret.
Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child
as her own.
The Help,
by Kathryn Stockett
Aibileen is an
African American maid raising her seventeenth white child.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, has lost many jobs for
“sassing” her white employers.
Skeeter, a recent college graduate, is torn between her old
friends in the Junior League and her desire to be a journalist.
Meet these unforgettable women in a novel about black
domestic servants working in Southern white households in the early
1960’s. The friendship
they form could change their town forever.