Comments on: Column: Book Fare http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/02/26/column-book-fare-13/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=column-book-fare-13 it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Hope Baugh http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/02/26/column-book-fare-13/comment-page-1/#comment-63002 Hope Baugh Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:15:09 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=58513#comment-63002 A book group that I belonged to in 2007 read The Welsh Girl and loved it. Oh, we didn’t all agree on its strengths and weaknesses, of course, nor on why it appealed to us, but we loved discussing it. “What is said in book group stays in book group,” so I can only share here what I wrote in my own book journal at the time:

“The stories of three main characters entwine beautifully: 1) a young man whose German father was Jewish, his mother Canadian, now in Britain trying to figure out his place in the world, 2) a German prisoner of war trying to overcome his shame at surrendering, 3) a 17-year-old Welsh barmaid trying to figure out how to help her father run their sheep farm without her mother, who died recently. The language is beautiful, too.”

Some day I would like to read the rest of Peter Ho Davies’ work. Thanks for including this thought-provoking review in the Chronicle.

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