As the days shorten, and the temperature dropped a degree or two, the cozy reading season is upon us. Hardly a heavy-lidded read, Lily King's "Euphoria" is an invigorating tale that will inspire you to dig a bit deeper into your understanding of Margaret Mead, as this novel, loosely based on her life, takes you into the 1930's world of anthropology and the personalities involved.
Our November selection, has been a wildly popular, well-read, discussed and reviewed novel, noted for its recognition for being the winner of the 2014 Kirkus Prize, the winner of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a "Best Book of the Year for: New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Vogue, New York Magazine, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Our Man in Boston, Oprah.com, Salon. In a nutshell, you will enjoy this! (It really is good.)
For your 'digging'....please check out the King interview from Vogue re: Margaret Mead....
http://www.vogue.com/872367/lily-king-margaret-mead-novel-euphoria/
Also, for further referencing about the nature of the anthropologists viewpoints, the Margaret Mead- Derek Freeman controversy centered around "Coming of Age in Samoa" is neatly described in the following excerpt from a Carnegie Mellon document that my googling produced:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/sc24/History/EnCultAntMead.pdf
Please be sure to RSVP to Kim for this upcoming Thursday, 11/12 at 7 pm.
Euphoric reading,
LK
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