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Book of the Month: APRIL


Hey fiction addicts !!!

Welcome to April. In some other parts of the world it's spring. But here in Nigeria, where I come from it’s ….……. Oh, well I don’t even know what season we are in. I just know that the weather is terribly hot and the sun is scorching. I can’t wait for the rainy season, so I can have a hot cup of coffee and snuggle up with lots of books.

Anyways I hope you enjoyed the last book of the month and as you know it’s that time of the month when we unveil the book of the month.

The book of the month for April is




The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout published in March 2013 by Random House Publishers.  The Burgess boys , Jim and Bob are on the verge of a mid life crisis. Both are lawyers practicing in New York . They are however remembered in their hometown for the accident caused by Bob that killed their father and changed their lives forever. Their sister Susan, stayed back in their hometown, Maine, Shirley Falls where they were all born. Susan is divorced and has a troubled teenage son, Zach who has committed a hate crime by throwing a pig’s head into a mosque populated with Somalis, who are taking refuge in the small town of Shirley Falls. Soon Bob and Jim are called in by Susan when Zach is arrested and the incident gains nation-wide notoriety.

When the boys return to Shirley falls, Jim is admired by many people for the success he has achieved but he overplays his hand by trying to manipulate the people into forgiving Zach for the crime he has committed. Bob becomes romantically interested in a female minister, Margaret who is sympathetic to Zach. Jim reveals to Bob that it was he, Jim who was actually responsible for their father’s death.

 “But in glimpses of herself –shouting at Steve, at Zach – she recognized her own mother and Susan’s face burned with shame. She had never seen what she saw now: that her mother’s fits of fury had made fury acceptable, the how Susan had been spoken to became how she spoke to others. Her mother had never said, Susan, I’m sorry, I should not have spoken to you that way. And so years later, speaking that way herself, Susan never apologized, either.
And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is .”    - The Burgeess Boys



Elizabeth Strout is a Pulitzer Prize winner for Olive Kitteridge. Other books  by Elizabeth include, Abide With Me, My Name is Lucy Barton, Amy and Isabel and Anything Is Possible.

You can download a copy of The Burgess Boys here:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B666Rph1noWxSjA3b2s1VkptbW8/view?usp=sharing

 I hope you enjoy the book and please do leave your comments in the comments section.

Tada.
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