Book Group
Book Group meets once a month on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Our March book is "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro. Please check Facebook and the town website for updates or email Meaghan at mschwelm@cwmars.org to be added to the book group email list.
From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Klara and the Sun, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love? -- From publisher
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - A BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick - ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - ONE OF BILL GATES'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, NPR, Washington Post, Vogue, USA Today, Town & Country, The Guardian, Vulture, and more
"One of the most affecting and profound novels Ishiguro has written....I'll go for broke and call Klara and the Sun a masterpiece that will make you think about life, mortality, the saving grace of love: in short, the all of it."
-- Maureen Corrigan, NPR