BookTalk introduces readers to a carefully chosen, provocative selection of novels for reading and informal discussion, considering the author’s writing techniques and the character’s personal journeys. Readings include translations of books from other countries and cultures in the search for fictions that illuminate the lives and understanding of those from all across the globe.
This class focuses on Beyond That, the Sea (2023) by Laura Spence-Ash. This debut novel centers around an 11-year-old girl from a working-class family evacuated from England to live with a Boston family during World War II, only to return to her own family in London after the war. The fiction then traces the next three decades in her life in which she experiences love, heartache, and understanding while belonging simultaneously to two different families separated by an ocean.
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