KCC Disciple Women's Book Club

The KCC Disciple Women's Book Club meets monthly for lively discourse AND DESSERT at the home of Karen Head located at 2243 Tangle Lake, Kingwood 77339. Selections are chosen by the members and all are welcome (whether you've finished - or even started - the book or not!) Discussions often include background information on the author, a recap of book reviews and interesting discussions on how the book relates to our own lives.

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Dear Readers,

Our next books have been chosen - and they are excellent choices all!

June - THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON by Kate Morton. In The House at Riverton, Kate Morton weaves together a modern Gothic mystery told from the perspective of a ninety-nine year old woman in a nursing home who was a servant at Riverton during during the 1910s and 1920s. Morton recreates England around World War I well, and draws readers into the emotion of the changing time.

July - WENCH by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. In 1850s Tennessee, 13-year-old slave named Lizzie is taken on by the plantation owner as a sexual mistress, a practice common to the time. Lizzie's master even takes her along with him to a spa resort in "free" Ohio when the Southern summer heat becomes too much to bear. There, Lizzie meets two other young black women caught in a similar form of bondage, and the three begin considering a break for freedom--an act that would mean abandoning everything in their life they know as home. A disturbing and engrossing historical novel, WENCH addresses many of the unspoken complexities and bizarre social permutations brought about by the atrocity of slavery.

August - POMEGRANATE: A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER JOURNEY TO THE SACRED PLACES OF GREECE, TURKEY, AND FRANCE by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor. Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction. Now, in this wise and engrossing dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, chronicle their travels together through Greece and France at a time when each was on a quest to redefine herself and rediscover each other. As Sue struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel, and Ann ponders the classic question of what to do with her life, this modern-day Demeter and Persephone explore an array of inspiring figures and sacred sites. They also give voice to that most protean of human connections: the bond of mothers and daughters.

September - LOVING FRANK by Nancy Horan. I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives. In this groundbreaking historical novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America's greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Mamah's profound influence on Wright. Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Horan's Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world, and her unforgettable journey, marked by choices that reshape her notions of love and responsibility, leads inexorably to this novel's stunning conclusion.

The next Book Club meeting to discuss this fascinating story will be at 7:00 PM on Thursday June 16, 2011 at Karen Head's house. As always, dessert will be served!

Happy reading!

Karen