“In the year that Summer stayed too long, the heat lay upon the prairie with the weight of a corpse. The tall grass withered to ash beneath the unforgiving sun, and animals fell dead in the parched fields. That year, only the flies were happy, and trouble came to the queen of the western valley.”
Month: September 2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Book club choice)
“In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least yet not openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her.”
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
“There have been two moments in my life when everything changed. Moments when things could have gone either way. Moments when I had to make a choice.”
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
“Noon. London. My flat. Ugh. The Last thing on earth I feel physically, emotionally or mentally equipped to do is drive to Una and Geoffrey Alconbury’s New Year’s Day Turkey Curry Buffet in Grafton Underwood.”