The venerable Booksmith Book Club met on Monday night and chose the amazing book by Atticus Lish, Preparation for the Next Life as their read for May. Just announced as winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Lish challenges his readers to see America through the eyes of three of the most damaged and vulnerable classes of our society: a traumatized soldier, an illegal immigrant and a recently-released prisoner. Beautiful writing, essential reading.
Many in the Book Club were keen to move right on to the second volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle.