Season Handbook 2014-2015

ROSENCRANS BOOK TALKS

Wednesday, January 14 EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU BY CELESTE NG

Mesmerizing debut novel that shrinks enormous issues of race, prejudice, idenƟty and gender into the dynamics of a single family.

Wednesday, February 11 THE WIVES OF LOS ALAMOS BY TARASHEA NESBIT

An emoƟonal tapestry of a Ɵme and place, the novel portrays the scienƟsts’ wives who arrived in New Mexico with tentaƟve expectaƟons and found frustraƟon and isolaƟon in their secreƟve existence.

Wednesday, March 11 SOMEONE BY ALICE McDERMOTT

A slender and decepƟvely simple work, the novel is a lyrical meditaƟon on the Irish-American experience in Brooklyn as it traces the arc of an unexcepƟonal life through the decades.