Book Club Announcement

Seventh Heaven

April 17

2:30 P.M.

Room 208

On April 17th the Thomaston Intergenerational Book Club will discuss Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman. Publishers Weekly said: "The setting is a Long Island, NY housing development from 1959 to 1960, a place of conforming, happy families where husbands mow the lawns of the tract houses and wives meet for coffee, where 'safety hung over the neighborhood like a net.' The arrival of Nora Silk, a brassy divorcee with two young children, is the catalyst for disturbing changes and events, some of them violent...". Hoffman has intuitive grasp of the thoughts and feelings that are masked by conventional behavior. Like some of her characters, she seems to have a spooky ability to read thoughts; how else to account for her unerring understanding of people of nearly every age and across a broad social spectrum? She has a gift for perceiving the cruelty of children and the wide gulf that yawns between the most loving, attentive parents and their offspring's unknown wishes and deeds. As usual, she tells more than a compulsively readable story. She does magic, she unsettles you and she leaves you feeling emotionally purged and satisfied.

On the third Tuesday of each month, this group of men and women of all ages come together to share their opinions and idesas. Extra copies of the books are purchased by the Friends of the Thomaston Public Library from the Annual Appeals fund.We thank you for all donations. Please come and join us at the Thomaston Library on April 17th at 2:30 P.M. in room 208.