A little bit of historical fiction comes our way for the November book selection in the form of The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean. The Seattle Times wrote about it: "Memory and the imagination are the gifts that keep on giving in "The Madonnas of Leningrad," an exceptional debut novel by Seattle writer Debra Dean. In this bifurcated story, an aging Russian immigrant living in Seattle loses her grip on the present and yields to the past, specifically the most intense period of her life: the years of deprivation and fear known as the siege of Leningrad. To her family, the old woman is succumbing to dementia. But to Marina Buriakov, the reward for her forgetfulness is the opportunity to revisit, room by room and painting by painting..."
So come on by on Wednesday the 12th of November at 6:30pm for our next gathering. We'll see you then.
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