Book Club’s 1st Thursday Book Group

Com­mu­nity Library invites you to the 1st Thurs­day Book Group on Thurs­day, March 7, from 7 to 8 p.m. The book for the March meet­ing is Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson.

Major Ernest Pet­ti­grew (retired) leads a quiet life in the vil­lage of St. Mary, Eng­land, until his brother’s death sparks an unex­pected friend­ship with Mrs. Jas­mina Ali, the Pak­istani shop­keeper from the vil­lage. Drawn together by their shared love of lit­er­a­ture and the loss of their respec­tive spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friend­ship blos­som­ing into some­thing more. But will their rela­tion­ship sur­vive in a soci­ety that con­sid­ers Ali a foreigner?

This is a vastly enjoy­able traipse through the Eng­lish coun­try­side and the long-held tra­di­tions of the British aris­toc­racy. The Major, with his keen sense of both honor and absur­dity, is the per­fect lens through which to view con­tem­po­rary England.

The book for the April meet­ing is West with the Night by Beryl Markham. Extra copies of the fea­tured book are avail­able at the library to participants.

The group meets on the 1st Thurs­day of each month.

Posted by Gary Henery on Feb 20 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.