St. Joseph / St. Andrew Book Club

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Last Wednesday of the Month

10:30 AM

St. Joseph Calasanctius Church Hall

We are a group of five or six men and women who read one book a month, then meet to discuss it, Sometimes we even talk about current events. Come and see what it's like. If you have a book to suggest, bring it. If you don't like to read but like to listen, come !

October 28

East of Eden

by

John Steinbeck

In this novel, John Steinbeck follows two families in the farmland of California. This book has been characterized as a re-enactment of the fall of Adam and Eve and the rivalry of Cain and Abel. Several themes are explored, one being the choice of good over evil.

Steinbeck won the Pulitzer price for Fiction in 1940 for the novel The Grapes of Wrath. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for his contribution to American Literature. Noted were his novels that portray the struggles of ordinary people in difficult times.