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Meeting to discuss one book each month. Titles will be mainly literary fiction, including classics, modern works, and works in translation.
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Pastoral by André Alexis
Purpose Brewing and Cellars, 4026 S. Mason St. Unit C, Fort Collins, CO, USAn examination of faith.
In 2016 I read Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis. Ten years later I still think about it. Recently I learned that it is part of a five book series by Alexis, The Quincunx Cycle. The books examine the themes of faith, place, love, power and hatred. December is our one-year anniversary as a book club, and I think it's a good time for a discussion about faith. What can we learn about ourselves? Plus, there's a talking sheep!
Blurb:
André Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral.
For his very first parish, Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. With more sheep than people, it's very bucolic—too much Barrow Brew on Barrow Day is the rowdiest it gets. But things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny, whose fiancé doesn't want to decide between Liz and his more worldly mistress Jane, and for Father Pennant himself, who greets some miracles of nature—mayors walking on water, talking sheep—with a profound crisis of faith.2014
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