This month's Book Club meeting is going to be a hybrid event and you are welcome to come to the humanist center in person, or to Zoom in using the link below.
This month's selection is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
from Amazon:
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, 1996
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.
Rating on Amazon: 4.3 stars
The Book Club meets on the 4th Saturday of every month.
Henry Geist and Vici Duarte are your hosts.
Zoom meeting ID: 914 535 5110
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HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX
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United States