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April - 'Everything Under' by Daisy Johnson

2/5/2019

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An interesting first novel by a young author. It deals with the theme of ‘memory’ as a woman tries to reconstruct the facts about her past.

Abandoned by her mother when she was sixteen, in mid life she goes back to try and find those people she remembers who may have known something about her mother. In this painful journey she meets an unknown older half sibling whom her mother had also abandoned, his adoptive parents, a neighbor with a terrible secret and finally her mother living on a derelict canal boat suffering from dementia. She takes her mother back to live with her, but her reluctance to talk about the past and her memory loss contribute only partially to the sketchy details her mother reveals.

The author split up the chapters into multiple periods of time making it difficult at times to untangle the facts, perhaps a device by the author to emphasize how memory is distorted when we try to reconstruct our past. Not a book for a cosy winter read around the fireplace.
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Meg Dillon
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    Booker Reading Group

    The annual Man Booker Prize is awarded to the novel deemed best by an extensive panel of judges in Britain. Writers in both America and post-colonial countries can also enter. Each year the search is narrowed to a Long List of 13 books, then the Short List of 6 from which the winner is chosen.  These novels are not for the faint hearted! They often explore contentious contemporary issues or the lives of families or individuals experiencing  the difficulties of modern life.

    If you are curious about some of the best contemporary fiction of the last year…please join us.  You will be expected to obtain your own copy of the books the group chooses to read, either by buying an e-book version, borrowing from a library, or purchasing a hard copy.

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