The next meeting of
Bernardsville Public Library’s book discussion group, Memoirs and Coffee, will
be held on Tuesday, May 28 at 10:30 am in the library’s Community
Room. Pat Kennedy-Grant, Readers’
Services Manager for the library, will lead the discussion of Why
Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) by Jeanette Winterson. [The author will not be present.]
This book is the story of a life's work to find
happiness by a girl who was adopted by a family of Pentecostal evangelists and
moved out at the age of sixteen. It is
the story of how the painful past the author thought she had written over and
repainted returned to haunt her later life, and sent her on a journey into
madness and out again, in search of her real mother.
Ms. Winterson studied at Oxford University. Her debut novel, "Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit," was an international bestseller. A reviewer from The New York Times wrote of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, [It]
"is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . .
Singular and electric . . . [Winterson's] life with her adoptive parents was
often appalling, but it made her the writer she is."
There is no charge and
no sign-up is needed to join the discussion.
Call the library at 766-0118 for more information.
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