Our June 24 book selection is The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley. Maia D’Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, Atlantis, a secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each sister is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage, a clue that takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story.
Eighty years earlier in the Rio of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an enormous statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela, passionate and longing to see the world, convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski’s studio and in the heady, vibrant cafés of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly and knows at once that her life will never be the same again. This is a sweeping, epic tale of love and loss, the first in a unique, spellbinding series.
The July 22 book will be Who do you think you are? by Alice Munroe. If there’s a book you’d like to discuss, please let Barbara know at [email protected]. The Book Club meets on the fourth Tuesday evening of each month from 7:00 to 9:00 pm (except December) in the Lower Hall. Come and join in a lively discussion about a great book. Contact [email protected] for more information.
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