And we are off to 2021 with a new theme of family. Each month we’ll be reading a book with the name of a family member/relationship either directly in the title, the subject of the book or both. I’m thinking that the girls will be opening up about their own family members in our discussions this year. Our mix of books includes four works of literary fiction, one historical fiction, three collections of short stories, one book of essays, one biography and one history.
January: (family) Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
February: (marriage) Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
March: (wife) The Angry Wife by Pearl S. Buck
April: (husband) The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
May: (mom) Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
June: (dad) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
July: (daughter) Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan
August: (son) Mothers and Sons by Colm Tóibín
September: (sister) My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
October: (brother) The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
November: (grandmother) My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
December: (grandfather) Moonglow by Michael Chabon