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4th Tuesday Book Group
Tuesday June 24, 2008 at 7:00pm
Books Inc
855 El Camino Real #74
Palo Alto, California Get Directions
The 4th Tuesday Book Club will discuss Salvage by Jane Kotapish. The 4th Tuesday Book Club is a drop in book discussion that meets on the 4th Tuesday of every month.

"I named my dead sister Nancy and talked to her in the privacy of my closet for eleven years..." Thus begins Salvage, an electrifying, utterly original debut that explores the collision point of memory, family allegiance, and forgiveness.
After witnessing a horrific, violent act, an unnamed thirty-something woman flees her hectic Manhattan life and buys a rambling house in rural Virginia to recover in peace. But in the quiet of her own company, wandering through her untamed garden by day and drinking before the fire by night, she finds herself facing unanswered questions from her isolated, suburban childhood. And when time spent with her eccentric mother -- who is convinced that all her friends are Catholic saints in disguise -- threatens to unhinge her altogether, she must decide which haunting memories from her past she should hang onto, and which she is willing to throw away.
Darkly funny, deeply imaginative and fueled by unexpected, finely-distilled prose, Salvage illuminates the challenge of creating a home that can withstand all that haunts us, and the subtle and often disastrous ways in which mothers and daughters lose and find one another, time and again.
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