Sounds like an interesting potentially depressing read. Stop by the library for a copy of the book and plan to join us on Saturday, November 28 at 3:00 for our discussion.Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
November’s Arroyo Book Club Pick….
The November Arroyo Book Club book is The Narrow Road into the Deep North by Richard Flanagan. The recent announcing of this year’s Man Booker prize winner got me thinking that we should read last year’s and so that is just what this book is. To quote from the book’s flap description:
