CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Here is your registration form for the "book and author" literary luncheon event which is very special this year.
In our 20th year, we are most pleased to honor
JOYCE REIDER, Past President of the Florida Region and longtime member of the National Executive Council of BNC. For the past thirty years Joyce has been a cultural and literary leader in our community, expanding our horizons with artful book reviews and organizing and developing continuing education throughout South Florida.
The luncheon will take place:
Wednesday March 18, 2020 at the Polo Country Club
for a head start on your reading see below.
Author Etaf Rum. A Woman is No Man: In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mother, Isra, also had no choice when she left Palestine as a teenager to marry Adam. Though Deya was raised to believe her parents died in a car accident, a secret note from a mysterious, yet familiar-looking woman makes Deya question everything she was told about her past. As the narrative alternates between the lives of Deya and Isra, she begins to understand the dark, complex secrets behind her fragile community.
Author Andre Dubus III. Gone so Long : Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn’t remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man and create something that lasts. Lois, her maternal grandmother who raised her, tries to find peace in her antique shop in a quaint Florida town but cannot escape her own anger, bitterness, and fear.
Author Sara Collins. The Confessions of Frannie Langton: 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr. and Mrs. Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth. For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a plantation in Jamaica, and it ends in a grand house in London, where a beautiful woman waits to be freed. But through her fevered confessions, one burning question haunts Frannie Langton: could she have murdered the only person she ever loved?
Author Tara Conklin. The Last Romantics: It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that stretches before them, the Skinner siblings—fierce Renee, sensitive Caroline, golden boy Joe and watchful Fiona—emerge from the Pause staunchly loyal and deeply connected. Two decades later, the siblings find themselves once again confronted with a family crisis that tests the strength of these bonds and forces them to question the life choices they’ve made and ask what, exactly, they will do for love.
Reminder: You must be a BNC member in order to enroll in study groups.
Many thanks to all who participated in preparing the schedule of study groups, our special events, our Breakfast and Lunch with Brandeis programs, Music! Music !Music! concerts, the Bulletin and the Study Guide
IMPORTANT
We will be continuing to send you emails with news items, so please make certain we have your email address and notify us if it changes. Email addresses should be sent to Ellie Mero at 4ellie@comcast.net.
If you have mail delivery problems please contact Joan Schreiber, Schreiberjoan@bellsouth.net
If you need to change your address please contact Ellie Mero , 4ellie@comcast.net
Associate members contact Marcia London,mlondon3@yahoo.com,
Canadian Members contact Joan Schreiber, 561-451-8498 or schreiberjoan@bellsouth.net
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VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SNOWBIRDS
You will not receive your Fall Study Guide and Bulletins on time if we do not have your summer address change. The Post Office DOES NOT FORWARD this mail –
it is returned to us. Then, when you realize that you haven’t received your Study Guide we must re-send it to you at an additional cost to the Chapter. We have close to 400 snowbird members, so you can see that ends up costing us $$$$.
Please cooperate by sending your snowbird information
to: Ellie Mero, 22821 Windsor Wood Court, Boca Raton, FL 33433 or send email to 4ellie@comcast.net
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