Great Expectations: A Novel

 

In April, we read Great Expectations: A Novel by Vinson Cunningham.  Our group saw this novel as a coming of age story based on Vinson's work as a young adult on Obama's campaign.  He  pulls together the experiences of a young man's work as part of a major political campaign that promised hope and change with the main character's experiences as a young parent, lover, and friend.  He weaves in the influences of religion into the narrative in an interesting way.  We agreed this was a work that captured a time and an experience at a pivotal time in history.  Where it might have been better for our experienced crowd would have been to have a narrative that could have had more of a universal connection to a broader experience.

For May we are reading Tom Lake by Anne Patchett.  Tom Lake is a modern day rendition of Our Town by Thornton Wilder.  For extra credit, we can either see a rendition of the play or read the play for our discussion. We are meeting at Chrysanne's at 5:30 on June 5th.