Second Tuesday Book Club

This active fiction loving book club meets the 2nd Tuesday evening of each month to discuss mostly fiction titles....sometimes a memoir or biography will slip in. 

This group is famous for bring delicious pupu's and beverages so don't be shy come with something to share. 

The book below is the book to be discussed during this evening so buy it early (from an independent book store) and try to finish it for the discussion.  It's ok if you don't....and sometime people don't read it at all and just come to socialize....you are welcome!

Tinkers $14.95

The novel, about a dying man's recollection of and relationship with his father, a tinker in Maine, was turned down by every major publisher over the course of several years. It was finally published by Bellevue Literary Press, a small publisher associated with the NYU Medical School. Even after its publication and the excellent reviews across the board, few hoped for it to rise to the top. And when Harding was awarded the Pulitzer, the Boston Globe  he only found out by checking the award's website -- nobody had bothered to call him. "Tinkers" is the first novel from a small press to win the Pulitzer since "Confederacy of Dunces" won in 1981 and everyone in the publishing industry is scrambling to take some part of the credit for the book's success.

Paul Harding has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught writing at Harvard and The University of Iowa. He lives near Boston with his wife and two sons.

For more on Paul Harding and Tinker's check out this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/books/19harding.html