Dear Great Book Guru,
Sea Cliff is filled with the holiday spirit- I just came back from the
Tree Lighting on the Village Green and now I am looking forward to the Hanukkah
Happening on Tuesday, December 16, 6:30pm at the Fire House. Friends and I will
be getting together at a favorite spot- the Sea Cliff Bistro- known to all as
Lily’s- this week to discuss books we have read over the last couple of weeks.
The problem is I haven’t read anything in quite a while. Do you have something I could
read quickly, but also worthy to bring " to the table" ? Holiday Sprite
Dear Holiday Sprite, After years of looking forward to John
Grisham’s newest legal thriller- I found myself losing interest and eventually
I stopped reading them but in the last couple of years, I feel his books have
improved. His latest GRAY MOUNTAIN came
out this fall and it is indeed an important work. Samantha Kofer is a 29 year- old third year
associate at a prestigious New York law firm, whose career takes an abrupt turn
with the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. The novel contrasts the excesses of
her former privileged existence with her new position at Mountain Legal Aid
Clinic in the ravaged town of Brady, Virginia in the heart of the Appalachian
mountains- a town rife with poverty, illness,
and injustice. Grisham’s characters – good and bad- are
vividly described, but it is Big Coal that receives the most devastating indictment
as we learn of its corruption of nature, community, and the legal system. A hard but necessary book to read!
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