Join the Germantown Novel Views Book Club to discuss "Ask Again, Yes" by Mary Beth Keane.
The Novel Views Book Club will meet in Meeting Room A, located on the lower level of the library.
"You could call Peter Stanhope naive, or you could call him optimistic. After all, as he tries to escape his traumatic childhood punctuated by his mom's mental illness and a violent incident during his teenage years, he reasons that his family's history might not matter in the long run. But of course, it does. The long shadow cast by his loneliness, the struggle to put a name to his mother's suffering these exact a toll not just on Peter but on his close childhood friend and neighbor, Kate. As their love blossoms, the couple realizes that a parent's imprint might be more lasting than either could ever have imagined. Marriage is long. All the seams get tested, cautions Kate's dad. Keane (Fever, 2013) reveals the full and remarkable veracity tucked into that simple statement. Even if it occasionally seems like Keane's male characters seek refuge for their troubles in predictable ways, this is a haunting look at what happens when mental illness goes undefined. The slow-burning and nameless terror it creates swallows everyone in its path." -- Booklist
Print copies of Ask Again, Yes may be available at the Germantown Library after September 7, 2022. It is also available as an eBook or eAudiobook.
Overdrive/Libby eBook: https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/4500879
Overdrive/Libby eAudiobook: https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/media/4384951
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GEN 1.0 10/27/2021
AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Lectures and Discussions |
TAGS: | Indoor Program |