Saturday Reading Group
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The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people. For this meeting, the group will read “Normal People” by Sally Rooney. The feverishly anticipated second novel from the young author of 2017’s most
acclaimed debut Conversations with Friends. Connell and Marianne grow up in the
same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different
worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has
grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story
about how a person can change another person’s life – a simple yet profound realisation
that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk
about how we feel and it tells us – blazingly – about cycles of domination, legitimacy and
privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney’s second
novel breathes fiction with new life.
Meetings are once a month on Saturday afternoons starting at 3 pm. Open to all library members. To sign up please contact the group coordinator at bookgroup@ellia.org.
Location: English-language Library in Angers |