Hey folks....I scrounged up a few good-looking books for the next month. I wasn't sure what avenue to take after Gone Girl, so I just randomly chose books that sounded interesting to me! I looked at the schedule- October 29th/Nov 5th would be about the right time for us to meet. We would have to meet at 8pm since I get off work at 7pm on Monday nights. Hope that's ok with everybody.....ok so here are the options.....
The Orchardist: At the turn of the twentieth
century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive
orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they
were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the
fruit he grows and the quiet, beating heart of the land he cultivates.
One day, two teenage girls appear and steal his fruit from the market;
they later return to the outskirts of his orchard to see the man who
gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, the girls take up
on Talmadge's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. Just
as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns,
and the shattering tragedy that follows will set Talmadge on an
irrevocable course not only to save and protect but also to reconcile
the ghosts of his own troubled past.
Transcribing America as it once
was before railways and roads connected its corners, Amanda Coplin
weaves a tapestry of solitary souls who come together in the wake of
unspeakable cruelty and misfortune. She writes with breathtaking
precision and empathy, and in The Orchardist she crafts an
astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of
an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in.
