Death of the Black Haired Girl

Last month, we read Death of the Black Haired Girl and I apologetically have not been prompt in my summarization of our discussion.  Here is the problem in a nutshell:  The book club members, in general had liked the previous three novels: Gates of Damascus, Outerbridge Reach and A Flag for Sunrise.  Tim suggested, quite honorably, I might add, that we read Robert Stone's last novel before he passed this year.  The Death of the Black Haired Girl is based on the story of a Yale student who was murdered in 1998.  A lecturer was suspected, however, never convicted.  And the issue was that Stone's last novel was not our favorite.  Tim valiantly defended the novel in spite of our inability to agree with him.  We had an interesting discussion about forgiving our favorite authors when they pen a novel we don't like quite as much as our former favorites.  So there you have it.  We have liked previous novels and well, only Tim liked this month's choice.

And now we are on to next month, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.  We are meeting at Fred's on March 23rd.