The new Target Book Club Pick has been announced and perhaps to help us prolong these summer days, it is Summer People by Brian Groh. This is a wonderful novel about a young man in his twenties, who is plunked down in an insular (to say the least) Maine summer town as caretaker to an elderly matriach of the community. Nathan finds himself face-to-face with long-standing traditions and social morays and meets a woman he's interested in, all while struggling with his charge's increasingly eccentric ways in this compelling novel.
Target provides great book club resources including a book overview, reviews, an author interview and letter, as well as a book club discussion guide on their site.
This looks like a good list and I think it would be great to get my own book on it-Forget Me Not a memoir published by Mountaineers Books in May.
Posted by: Jennifer Lowe-Anker | June 11, 2008 at 01:14 AM