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Christie Affair, The

An Affair of the Heart Author: Nina De Gramont In December 1926, author Agatha Christie disappeared from her home. She left behind an abandoned car with her driver’s license still inside, inciting the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. After eleven days, the police finally found her staying at a spa town, claiming amnesia. But many suspected that Agatha left because of her husband’s torrid affair and the recent death of her mother. History will never be able to tell us, but author Nina De Gramont has ideas. Told through the viewpoint of Agatha’s husband’s mistress, Nan O’Dea [...]

2024-06-22T11:51:44-07:00June 22nd, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Grapes of Wrath, The

A Nihilistic Classic Author: John Steinbeck Tom Joad, convicted murderer, is walking the long, dusty road to his Oklahoma home. He doesn’t regret what he did – he would do it again. But he does miss his family and wonder what happened to them while he was in jail. What he finds, after teaming up with an ex-preacher (Casey) on the road, is his family preparing to abandon their only home, the farm that has been with them for generations. It seems that there is hope, there is money, to be made in California. The government is taking over the farms, [...]

2023-12-08T16:24:56-07:00December 8th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

China Room, The

Love, Duty, Betrayal, and Society Author: Sunjeev Sahota It’s 1929 – Punjab, India. There is political unrest, but for Mehar, a young bride living with her husband’s family on a rural farm, all that is very far away. She is married into a family with three brothers. She lives with the other two wives, and during their hardworking days and stifling, hopeful nights, the women wonder which of the brothers is their husband, which of the men it is who occasionally comes for them in the dark. Mehar knows, though, and she has fallen in love with the man she thinks [...]

2023-05-27T19:41:54-07:00May 27th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |
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