HARPO'S BOOK CLUB - New York Times Bestsellers and more

Booklovers meet fellow readers! Join HARPO'S BOOK CLUB, read and discuss a New York Times bestseller - and find out about excellent travel writing, food writing and more! Book-title: The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson.
Set in Northern Ontario like her beautiful novel „Crow Lake“, and her latest „A Town called Solace“ (also Booker Prize-longlisted) this is the story of Arthur and Jake who could not be more different as siblings: Arthur is hopeless at school and loves nothing better than cleaning his father's gun or helping to plough the fields. Jake is spoiled, indulged by their mother after several miscarriages and despised by their father for his laziness. Those differences will only magnify as they grow older.
Interwoven with their story is that of Ian, a local doctor's son, who gets to know the grown-up brothers when he goes to work on the farm. - However, the story is neither bleak nor depressing. Lawson writes with admirable economy. She has a remarkable gift for conjuring up place and people in a handful of words, a few lines of dialogue. This is a timeless piece of literature, a classic.

Please don’t read the book beforehand but wait for further information (email). Not suitable for level C or native speakers!