This is Tatiana De
Rosnay who is British and French
She wrote our last book recommended by Donna Smith.
As it turned out it was deemed a winner by all who
attended last night.
We had nine people who gathered at my house for
pizza, salad, and December birthday cake.
The birthday celebrants were Madeleine, Betsy and Diana
who managed to join in from Florida by
skype. Others present
were Julie, Donna S., Donna R. Sarah, Kathy, Carol and Nettie.
Sarah's Key has 2 parallel stories about the July 16, 1942
roundup of Jewish people by the French police ordered
by the Nazi's in occupied France. At first it is told
from the view point of a young girl Sarah who is one
of the victims. Then it is told from the view point of an
American reporter investigating the incident 60 years later.
What we learned was that this incident which hauled in
13000 Jews to the
Vel De
Hiver and eventually 76000 total
sent to the death camps was completely swept under the
rug by the French people and only recently has it even
come to light. The two stories seamlessly gets pulled together by
the author but we missed the voice of the little girl after
she grows up. A movie is currently being filmed in
which Kristen Scott Thompson stars.
The moral of the story is that we should never forget the
horror of the holocaust and should never let this
ever occur again.
We decided on February 9, 2011 for the next meeting.
Kathy chose "
Scottsboro" by Ellen
Feldman which is
a fairly large book so we are allowing 2 months. The book
is available at the library we discovered and at Amazon.com
for a mere penny plus $3.99 shipping. Kathy suggests
that we not skip the prologue as that is the meat of
the story. It is about a southern rape case where several negro
boys are framed by a town and 2 women of dubious repute.
Above is a photo of a young girl who is a friend of
I have been lazy with my blogging of late.
