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Book Club Pick: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Sybil Van Antwerp writes letters instead of saying things aloud. It is perhaps the only way she has ever known how to speak.
This month we are reading her as a way of asking something of ourselves.
What do we keep in the unsent drafts of our own lives? Where does the work of appearing composed end? Where does the self begin? The Correspondent is less a story than an accumulation. Of guilt. Of restraint. Of a woman deciding, late, what she is allowed to want.
Come with your own unsent letters in mind.
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You are most welcome to join us, even if you haven't managed to finish the book. Come for the chats!