Upcoming meetings:
We will be reading Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman for August. We will meet at 7:00 PM the last Tuesday of the month, August 26th. Location still to be determined, but I’ll let you know as soon as I know!! Any questions please call Renée
From Library Journal
In felicitously recording the lives of newcomers-on-the-block Nora Silk and her sons, baby James and young Billy, Hoffman proves once again that she can tell a charming story about suburbia that is, at once, mundane and oddly transcendent. Nora, a young, sexy divorcee, moves to the suburbs of New York City following her divorce (in 1959 a scandalous event). All alone, she manages work, her sons, and assorted domestic responsibilities with quirky flair, if not thoroughness (and occasional help from assorted magic spells inherited from her grandfather). Hoffman takes the reader back to that apparently innocent time and into a "nice" neighborhood, where the sunny replicated exteriors of the houses hide sometimes desperate lives within. Nora and her neighbors signal lifestyles of the future: a woman walks out on her family, another goes back to work; a boy is abused and strikes back; a father leaves home. Combining reality with magic, this novel surpasses At Risk (LJ 7/88). It should attract a wide readership.
Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 3/15/90. - Lauren Bielski, New York
Renee Panec