We’re back in lockdown again so that means we’re back on Zoom.
While I didn’t mind book, for one of the first times I wasn’t able to finish it due to pressing work commitments. I got about halfway through. It didn’t help that we’d gone into lockdown again and the book is a challenging read, the protagonist has an abortion and her mother commits suicide before we’re twenty pages in.
Matt made a very good point that really challenged the consistency of the book’s world: the protagonist’s boyfriend who has got the young woman pregnant borrows the money from her parents for the abortion. He found that very difficult to imagine and I tend to agree.
Without having finished the book it doesn’t seem fair to write much more.
We have a slightly longer book next month, J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur. Hopefully we’ll be back at The All Nations but I suspect it will probably be Zoom again, see you on October 6 in any case.
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