More Books for the Book Club.

Louise has more books for us "smart, beautiful, literate women--
and we can cook, too!" to consider! 

 I like her style!
Check the previous book club post from 2/28 to see more of the list.

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Sarah’s Key

By Tatiana de Rosnay

In parallel narratives, the author tells the story of Sarah, a 10-year-old Jewish girl in the Vel' d'Hiv' - the roundup of Jews by French police in July 1942. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist who has made Paris her home, discovers that the French are still in denial about the incident. Julia becomes obsessed with the thousands of children who died and, in particular, with the one child who has a connection to her husband's family. The capacity of the human mind for denying painful truths is expertly conveyed in both storylines.

The Room: A Novel

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue’s novel, “Room,” is built on two intense constraints: the limited point of view of the narrator, a 5-year-old boy named Jack; and the confines of Jack’s physical world, an 11-by-11-foot room where he lives with his mother. The story reveals that Room is actually a prison, with a villain holding the key, and that Ma (as Jack calls his mother) is being kept against her will.

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

By Beth Hoffman

For years, twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille. The tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town, Camille was a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. But when she is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt Tootie in her vintage Packard convertible. It is a novel that explores the indomitable strengths of female friendship and gives us the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.

 

The Neighbor: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

By Lisa Gardner

It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy - a young mother, blonde and pretty, disappears without trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness, and her handsome, secretive husband as the prime suspect.

But from the moment Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren arrives at the Joneses' snug little bungalow, she senses something off about the picture of wholesome normality the couple worked so hard to create. But just under the surface things grow murkier. With the clock ticking on the life of a missing woman and the media firestorm building, Jason Jones seems more intent on destroying evidence and isolating his daughter than on searching for his "beloved" wife.