Vote on your choice for the inaugural month of the TK Chit Chat Book Club! Vote through Saturday, and then you'll have the following week to find/buy/beg/borrow/steal/download the book and start reading once June starts. First person to finish it can start a thread to discuss. View at your own spoiler risk if you haven't finished it yet!
Your choices are:
The Goldfinch (2014 Pulitzer Prize)
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
A Visit From The Goon Squad (2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.
Midnight's Children (Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981)
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself handcuffed to history by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent. This is a family saga set against the background of the India of the 20th century.
The Sense of an Ending (2011 Man Booker Prize)
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He’s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove.
TK Book Club: JUNE - AWARD WINNERS 63 votes
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
A Sense of Ending by Julian Barnes